Formula 1 will be the backdrop of another movie next year with an upcoming prequel to "Ocean's Eleven" set to feature a heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.
The world championship series was the subject of a blockbuster movie in 2025 -- "F1," starring Brad Pitt and co-produced by seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
The movie made over $633 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing racing movie of all time.
Plans for a sequel are currently in the works.
F1 will continue to center prominently going forward and in 2027 the championship's crown jewel event -- the famous street race around the narrow streets lining the Monte Carlo harbor -- will be front and center in an upcoming Warner Bros. project.
The currently untitled movie will be a prequel to the movie franchise started by Steven Soderbergh's 2001 "Ocean's Eleven," which starred George Clooney as suave heist expert Danny Ocean.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt starred in Steven Soderbergh's 2001 "Ocean's Eleven." Getty
The new movie will feature Margot Robbie, who teased the storyline during a sizzle reel for Warner Bros.' 2027 slate of upcoming movies.
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"Before Danny Ocean ever stepped foot in Vegas, two masterminds taught him everything he knows -- his parents," Robbie said. "You'll see them in their prime, and in our new movie, pulling off an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix."
Monaco's iconic race started in 1929 and was the second round of the inaugural Formula 1 world championship in 1950.
From 1955 onward it has been a mainstay on the F1 schedule, hosting every year except the 2020 edition, which was canceled due to the pandemic.
It remains to be seen how prominent the 1962 edition is in the movie.
That race was won by New Zealand's Bruce McLaren in a Cooper-Climax car, a year before he founded the McLaren team that currently holds both the drivers' and constructors' championship titles.
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The Ocean's 11 prequel will feature Danny Ocean's parents pulling off a heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix.
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This continues Hollywood's growing interest in Formula 1 after the success of Brad Pitt's "F1" movie.
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Bruce McLaren won the actual 1962 Monaco GP before founding the team that currently leads F1 championships.