Lights Out lives entirely inside the seconds before the race. Five red lights, one by one, above the grid. Then the hold: engines screaming, twenty of the fastest humans alive strapped in, and nothing moves. This is not a film about the race. It is the breath before it, a ninety second study of calm inside chaos, with Colin Farrell as the voice inside the driver’s head.
Six drivers carry the film: Russell, Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris, Antonelli, and Hamilton, the Maestro, standing apart. Each light belongs to one driver and one state of mind, from ignition to anticipation, built in a heightened world of deep red and near darkness, to Reign by UNKLE. Stillness before the storm. Calm within the chaos. And then, everything.
Credits
ClientF1
Head of Brand, F1Jack Peters
Marketing Manager, F1Francesca Livesey
DirectorWill Innes Smith
DOPEd Hiscox
MusicReign by UNKLE / Ian Brown
ProducerJake Kelsall
Executive ProducerWill Ingham
Production CompanyWing
Local ProducersMoritz Mueller & Erik May
FeaturingFernando Alonso / Kimi Antonelli / Oliver Bearman / Gabriel Bortoleto / Valtteri Bottas / Franco Colapinto / Pierre Gasly / Isack Hadjar / Lewis Hamilton / Nico Hulkenberg / Liam Lawson / Charles Leclerc / Arvid Lindblad / Lando Norris / Esteban Ocon / Sergio Perez / Oscar Piastri / George Russell / Carlos Sainz / Lance Stroll / Max Verstappen
Body DoubleWilliam Bowdery
1st ADArjen Oosterbaan
SFXSean Harland at MattersFX
CameraARRI Alexa Mini / Canon C80
Art Director, TrackCharlie Hippisley
Art Director, StudioJean-Claude Allen
GafferRomain Foster
EditorHolly Denny & Sam Hopkins
VFXCovert
Post ProducersBen Pearce & Ben Dubois
GradeGeorge Neave
Sound DesignJames Cobbold
With thanks toDamien Reeves
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