Tom Cruise might be returning to the racetrack soon.
After the huge success of Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is starting early talks with Paramount about making a sequel to Days of Thunder, his 1990 NASCAR movie. Like the original Top Gun, Days of Thunder was directed by Tony Scott and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson.
No other team members are confirmed yet, and with Cruise’s busy schedule — promoting Mission: Impossible 8, filming a movie with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and planning another Top Gun movie — it will be a while before work on this project begins. Paramount couldn’t be reached for comment.
Sources say that Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced Top Gun: Maverick, has also been part of the talks about coming back for this project.
The first Days of Thunder movie tells the story of Cole Trickle, a determined race car driver who joins a new NASCAR team led by a retired racing legend, played by Robert Duvall. Tom Cruise has a strong connection to this film; it’s the only movie where he officially helped write the story, working with screenwriter Robert Towne.
It’s also where he met Nicole Kidman, who played a neurosurgeon who falls in love with Cole and later became his wife for 11 years. This film marked Kidman’s Hollywood debut.
When Days of Thunder first came out, it made a decent $157.9 million worldwide, which was average for Tom Cruise, and critics didn’t praise it much. However, people have grown to appreciate it over time. Racing movies have also become popular recently, with films like Ford v Ferrari in 2019 and an upcoming F1 movie starring Brad Pitt, directed by Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski.
The Hollywood Reporter was the first to announce that this project exists.
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