India, July 6 -- Brad Pitt is currently basking in the success of his new racing film F1: The Movie, but he is also reflecting on a motorsport project which never made it to the finish line: a Ford vs Ferrari film that would have reunited him with Tom Cruise on the big screen. Pitt, in a new interview with The National, shared that he and Cruise were originally set to star in an earlier version of Ford v Ferrari helmed by the Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski.

The project fell apart not just over budget concerns, but because Cruise was not happy with the amount of time his character would spend behind the wheel.

The report quoted Pitt saying he and Tom were in a Ford v Ferrari with Joe Kosinski. "What it came down to is that we...