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[glenncondor]

https://www.autospor...entary/9336656/

 

 

Netflix anyone?    

[Risil]

I love his enthusiasm.
 

“I have no idea who I get to play me,” he said. “I don't know who's out there that I would use at the moment. I'd have to do some research!

“But I'm actually going through a process right now of castings for another project that I have. And that's quite an interesting process to go through. So it's quite exciting, reading up on all these different characters, people that could fit a role that the script.

“When the script’s written, and they’re writing that character, finding someone that matches that and represents that character is quite an interesting process.”

[gowebber]

Maybe Chris Rock could play him? 🤔

[prty]

"Inspires me for my own biography movie" is the most unlimited ego sentence that I've read in a while

[Whitelightning]

how has someone created a thread for this

[TheJag]

"Inspires me for my own biography movie" is the most unlimited ego sentence that I've read in a while

This man just won’t stop.

[garoidb]

If inspired by the Will Smith movie, wouldn't the film be a biopic of Anthony Hamilton? Who would play the leading role of Anthony then? 

[CoolBreeze]

Lol drama queen...never getting enough of himself

[Heyli]

It's a bit of a weird timing to say you've been inspired by Will Smith!

[flingsofdeon]

I was saying this to some colleagues - a few years of finishing away from the podium, getting beaten by George, would probably see some of the LA/celebrity entourage pull away a little bit from him and that may actually be good for him as a person going forward. Even if taken out of context, a bit of a cringy thing to say…a bit David Brent.

[JimmyClark]

I guess the filiming location for the slums of Stevenage at the beginning of the film will be somewhere in El Salvador, and there will be a great punch-up scene between him and Alonso, which Will Smith will give great advice for. 

 

The ending will be a slow-mo emotional sequence of him walking through the streets of Croydon, with the backing of Hans Zimmer orchestral music, his main purpose in life finally complete. 

[MinardiCrashDummy]

I was saying this to some colleagues - a few years of finishing away from the podium, getting beaten by George, would probably see some of the LA/celebrity entourage pull away a little bit from him and that may actually be good for him as a person going forward. Even if taken out of context, a bit of a cringy thing to say…a bit David Brent.

I never get this drive for some people wanting to see Hamilton "humbled" there is nothing wrong with who he is as a person

 

It's too late for that by the way his career is already set in stone everything going forward is a bonus.

[flingsofdeon]

I never get this drive for some people wanting to see Hamilton "humbled" there is nothing wrong with who he is as a person

It's too late for that by the way his career is already set in stone everything going forward is a bonus.

It’s enjoyable to have differing opinions, otherwise this would be a bland forum wouldn’t it

[messy]

I always feel like Lewis is well meaning, however cringey some of the stuff he says. Luckily he's paid to drive and does it pretty well...

[Rinehart]

The one part of Hamilton's story that has always irked me is his "woe is me" narrative around growing up in the sheer poverty of Stevenage, as if its something like a favela, without any world class free healthcare, education or social services. Stevenage is bland, but it aint no slum (as he has called it) - I think it says alot about Hamilton's detachment from where he came from and so I'd be interested to see how cringeworthy and inaccurate this part of the film is!!! 

[JimmyClark]

I never get this drive for some people wanting to see Hamilton "humbled" there is nothing wrong with who he is as a person

It's too late for that by the way his career is already set in stone everything going forward is a bonus.

I think it's a cultural thing over here in the UK. We as a country don't seem to like people going "showbiz" and "Hollywoody" - see James Cordon, Adele, The Beckhams, Prince Harry for example, previously loved people who are now reviled. Hamilton definitely fits in this category it seems, or is heading there.

[Gareth]

It's a bit of a weird timing to say you've been inspired by Will Smith!

Check the date of the OP. And how popular this thread was until Sunday night's events!

[MinardiCrashDummy]

It’s enjoyable to have differing opinions, otherwise this would be a bland forum wouldn’t it

If you say so but i just find the being in a bad car losing to George and have his "mates" abandon him will be a good thing for him.

 

Hamilton is 37 at the end of his career and has already won everything he could have hoped to win, if he was early in his career and he was letting his celebrity lifestyle effect his driving you would have more of a point.

[d246]

I think it's a cultural thing over here in the UK. We as a country don't seem to like people going "showbiz" and "Hollywoody" - see James Cordon, Adele, The Beckhams, Prince Harry for example, previously loved people who are now reviled. Hamilton definitely fits in this category it seems, or is heading there.

Yes, it says more about us than it does of him. And I'm guilty.

[flingsofdeon]

If you say so but i just find the being in a bad car losing to George and have his "mates" abandon him will be a good thing for him.

Hamilton is 37 at the end of his career and has already won everything he could have hoped to win, if he was early in his career and he was letting his celebrity lifestyle effect his driving you would have more of a point.

Lewis is a freak of a talent. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing many people he’s raced with and all agree he’s a generational talent, obviously being in the Mercedes has helped the stat-side, but he still had to beat Rosberg and Bottas to rack those post-McLaren mega numbers up.

Agree on the woe is me narrative - he’s had a quite unbelievable career-backing from a very young age - and he’s clearly made the most of it.

When he’s genuine and open (like when he received that Senna helmet years ago at Montreal) - you can see there’s a decent humble bloke in there, but I do feel, understandably, the reality he lives will have been warped by the types of people that gravitate toward someone who is a poster child for a global sport.

I wonder what a 50 year old Hamilton will be doing? Will he race anything post f1? Will he be seen on any trackside event for the fun of it, in the future? Meh, doesn’t impact me in the slightest - but nor does anything on this forum. Simply intrigued.

[MinardiCrashDummy]

In regards to a potential movie you can't say there isn't plenty of meat on the bones to make one.

 

Although i'm not sure if it would be better as a movie or a Senna/Schumacher style documentary.

[Marklar]

The one part of Hamilton's story that has always irked me is his "woe is me" narrative around growing up in the sheer poverty of Stevenage, as if its something like a favela, without any world class free healthcare, education or social services. Stevenage is bland, but it aint no slum (as he has called it) - I think it says alot about Hamilton's detachment from where he came from and so I'd be interested to see how cringeworthy and inaccurate this part of the film is!!! 

to be fair regardless how Hamilton portrays it himself nowadays (although he right away took the slum comment back), with creative licence that part of his story will be highly inaccurate no matter what. That's what they do in nearly every biopic

 

Lol drama queen...never getting enough of himself

did you said the same about Niki Lauda?

Sad to break it to you, but he is definitely big enough to have a film about himself in due time.

 

I think it's a cultural thing over here in the UK. We as a country don't seem to like people going "showbiz" and "Hollywoody" - see James Cordon, Adele, The Beckhams, Prince Harry for example, previously loved people who are now reviled. Hamilton definitely fits in this category it seems, or is heading there.

it's not only in the UK. The Germans are even worse about this. Up south and east it's much different, probably because it's less common and people are more proud.

It never makes sense to me though.

[PlayboyRacer]

"Inspires me for my own biography movie" is the most unlimited ego sentence that I've read in a while

This man just won’t stop.

Lol drama queen...never getting enough of himself

LMFAO

[BRG]

If he is basing it on Will Smith, I hope it includes a section where Lewis gives Max a hard slapping.

[Seanspeed]

I always feel like Lewis is well meaning, however cringey some of the stuff he says. Luckily he's paid to drive and does it pretty well...

I'm sure he's an ok guy in real life, but he's still very fake and weird to me and has always wanted to be around this painful 'celebrity culture' stuff.  A lot of it may well be the sort of non-normal life he's grown up with, but I'm just not a fan at all.  

[yolo]

It's a bit of a weird timing to say you've been inspired by Will Smith!

 

He did win Best Actor this year as well... which has sadly been overshadowed by his outburst.

 

I'm sure he's an ok guy in real life, but he's still very fake and weird to me and has always wanted to be around this painful 'celebrity culture' stuff.  A lot of it may well be the sort of non-normal life he's grown up with, but I'm just not a fan at all. 

 

You should have said the bolded upfront, to be honest. You're not a fan therefore you find his relationship with A-lister and world personalities 'fake'. Wonder how you felt about Michael Schumacher and his celebrity connections?

[Seanspeed]

 

did you said the same about Niki Lauda?

Sad to break it to you, but he is definitely big enough to have a film about himself in due time.

I'm sure plenty of people could agree that a movie about Lewis Hamilton's racing career would be merited, in time.  

 

But I kinda doubt Niki Lauda went to Ron Howard with the pitch himself, ya know...

[Seanspeed]

 

You should have said the bolded upfront, to be honest. You're not a fan therefore you find his relationship with A-lister and world personalities 'fake'. Wonder how you felt about Michael Schumacher and his celebrity connections?

Or maybe I'm not a fan because of the reasons I've stated?  It's hilarious how hard it is for some of y'all to grasp that there may be legitimate reasons people aren't a fan of Lewis. lol 

 

As for M.Schumacher, I was never a big fan of him either, and yea, dude was also weird.  Though I never saw him as 'fake' necessarily.  Just kind of a goof/dork. 

 

Try again. 

Edited by Seanspeed, 29 March 2022 - 10:34.

[thiscocks]

I guess the filiming location for the slums of Stevenage at the beginning of the film will be somewhere in El Salvador, and there will be a great punch-up scene between him and Alonso, which Will Smith will give great advice for. 

 

The ending will be a slow-mo emotional sequence of him walking through the streets of Croydon, with the backing of Hans Zimmer orchestral music, his main purpose in life finally complete. 

Before slapping George Russell for slaggin' off his misses init?

[Beamer]

It's never a good idea to pitch a movie about yourself. No matter who you are. Pretty sure Lauda didn't, Senna didn't, schumi didnt, williams sisters didn't, mohammed ali didn't. That's about the most ego centrical thing you can do.

[P123]

Biopics tend to be a bit meh.

 

But is there something we are meant to be discussing, apart from certain posters own personal hangups about L. Hamilton, and how he specifically is doing something wrong compared to person x, y and z?

[Beamer]

Biopics tend to be a bit meh.

But is there something we are meant to be discussing, apart from certain posters own personal hangups about L. Hamilton, and how he specifically is doing something wrong compared to person x, y and z?

Nope

[BobbyRicky]

Will the premiere be shown at the cinema in Croydon?

[Sennasational]

The responses in this thread really confuse me. Why wouldn't he want to tell his story? He's one of the few remaining F1 drivers who didn't 'come from money' and has become statistically the most successful of all time. Yes he's had backing from a young age, but he didn't start with anything other than his talent and the support of his family. I always enjoy listening to Anthony speak about the early karting days, for me it's an interesting story. From a quick scan of the article, it seems more to me that he wants to shine a spotlight on those around him who have helped him on his journey than laud his own achievements, but I guess the man's very existence just offends certain people. Shame, I'd love to see a movie about most F1 drivers, past and present, maybe I'm the odd one.

[thiscocks]

The responses in this thread really confuse me. Why wouldn't he want to tell his story? He's one of the few remaining F1 drivers who didn't 'come from money' and has become statistically the most successful of all time. Yes he's had backing from a young age, but he didn't start with anything other than his talent and the support of his family. I always enjoy listening to Anthony speak about the early karting days, for me it's an interesting story. From a quick scan of the article, it seems more to me that he wants to shine a spotlight on those around him who have helped him on his journey than laud his own achievements, but I guess the man's very existence just offends certain people. Shame, I'd love to see a movie about most F1 drivers, past and present, maybe I'm the odd one.

There's a difference between a film biogrophy and a fil autobiography. One can only imagine the amount of self righteous politics that would be involved if Hamilton made it. 

[andyscoot]

It's never a good idea to pitch a movie about yourself. No matter who you are.

 

There's a significant number of films - many of them good - that are entirely based around the autobiographical experiences of the director and/or writer. The only difference is they tend to change the names up so you're not aware. Almost Famous, All That Jazz, Platoon, Big Red One are obvious ones. Recently Belfast is a semi-biographical account of Kenneth Branaghs childhood and he just picked up an Oscar for writing it.

 

It's fairly normal, is what I'm getting at.

[TerryC63]

As Lewis is all for diversity and equality I look forward to see who plays him in the film. Maybe Kate Winslet.

[Gambelli]

As Lewis is all for diversity and equality I look forward to see who plays him in the film. Maybe Kate Winslet.

 

She'd be great 'Jack, look, I'm flying' the dialog is already written, she doesn't even have to memorise new lines, they just have to rename his race engineer Jack

 

Oh, okay, she'd have to memorise 'My tyres a dead man' but it would be spoken so many times in the movie she'd remember it quick enough....

Edited by Gambelli, 29 March 2022 - 12:16.

[BRG]

Do you have any arguments you can use to deny that Lewis is an attention seeker? While no doubt one of the best drivers in the sport, some of his quotes (including the one in the second post here), statements and public appearances all point to that.

And yet, when he went off-line after Abu Dhabi, all the same people who criticise him as an attention-seeker, immediately dumped on him for NOT being an attention-seeker.  You can't win if you are from Stevenage.

 

As Lewis is all for diversity and equality I look forward to see who plays him in the film. Maybe Kate Winslet.

Don't be silly.  She is too tall.

 

My choice for the role would be Donald Trump - he could really depict a shameless attention-seeker to perfection.

[Jovanotti]

The real question is, who is he going to bitch-slap? I'm torn between Alonso, Masi and Britney.

Edited by Jovanotti, 29 March 2022 - 12:28.

[MasterOfCoin]

The real question is, who is he going to bitch-slap? I'm torn between Alonso, Masi and Britney.

I don't get it who did Richard Williams slap?...

[AnR]

As Lewis is all for diversity and equality I look forward to see who plays him in the film. Maybe Kate Winslet.

 

[BCNF1]

wow i came on here expecting a decent discussion about the actual thread title, not a load of fighting and bashing, can we keep it on topic and have a mature discussion.

 

For any true F1 fan having something like this of any of the great F1 drivers would be a great watch for me.

[IrvTheSwerve]

Shame, I'd love to see a movie about most F1 drivers, past and present, maybe I'm the odd one.

 

I can't wait for the Taki Inoue blockbuster.

[Casey]

I'm sure plenty of people could agree that a movie about Lewis Hamilton's racing career would be merited, in time.  

 

But I kinda doubt Niki Lauda went to Ron Howard with the pitch himself, ya know...

It's not even a film about Lauda's career .

[DeKnyff]

Shame, I'd love to see a movie about most F1 drivers, past and present, maybe I'm the odd one.

 

I want to see F1 drivers racing on the track. Biopics? Meh... I could live without.

[Beamer]

Thanks. I'm not exactly wrong though am I? Or am I?

You tell me.

Manchild... classy.

[PlayboyRacer]

Manchild... classy.

Classy post for a classy thread. What can I say.

[Beamer]

Most f1 driver movies are tainted. Liked then lauda vs hunt one, as it was not a biopic, but the schumi one, the Senna one and the docs on verstappen (mostly produced by dutch) are really not worth watching. (And I'm a fan of all 3)

[Marklar]

It's not even a film about Lauda's career .

let's be real, it pretty much is (even if shared with Hunt, and even if they used the creative licence for his early career too much)

And Lauda was very involved in this. There are reasons why Daniel Brühl ended up portraying him so brilliantly.

I hate racing movies with passion, especially if they try to base it on reality (and fail terribly), but Lewis is certainly far up on the list of people who could get a interesting movie out of it, alone with him being the only black driver, his dad's involvement, the amount of great rivalries, the personal struggles etc.

But it should be a little further down the road.
 

There's a difference between a film biogrophy and a fil autobiography. One can only imagine the amount of self righteous politics that would be involved if Hamilton made it.

I mean where does it even say that he is going to make a movie about himself on his own, he just says it would be cool. The documentary is standard stuff that the person (or their family) is strongly involved. The film he mentions he is involved in is that Brad Pitt one that sounds more like an Alonso movie (lol)

And even if he was involved, so what? Hulu recently produced a series about Pamela Anderson without her input and it caused huge distress in the way she was portrayed (far more serious topic btw), she is now making her own version of it on Netflix.

This is all very standard stuff.

Edited by Marklar, 29 March 2022 - 14:27.