Tom Cruise Includes the need for speed … but not of the “Top Gun” variety. June 27 27Cruise wrote a congratulations message to producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who is not just the man behind the weekend’s box office -hit ”F1“But also that cruise head role Nascar film “Days of Thunder” – released in theaters 35 years to the day of the new Brad Pitt-Lead Formula One Action Drama.
“I always love the fun and adrenaline in a racing movie,” Cruise wrote. “Today, two competition milestones for my friend Jerry Bruckheimer, the release of the ‘F1’ and the 35th anniversary for the day for our collaboration with Great Tony Scott at ‘Days of Thunder. “”
Cruise published a series of photos from the production of “Days of Thunder”, all on the race track.
“Incredible to look back at this movie today and congratulations to Jerry, Brad, Joe and the entire F1 team when released,” Cruise added.
The comparisons between Cruise and Pitt’s action capacity were also made earlier this month at the premiere “F1”, when Pitt responded to the proposal That he plays with his colleague Kassamär in a “Mission: Impossible” -style thriller.
“Well, I’m not going to hang my ass from the aircraft like that,” he said in an interview With e! Beginner. “When he does something again it’s on the ground.”
The couple has known each other for decades, and racing has helped define their friendship since the beginning – albeit in not so high efforts a place. “He’s cute,” Pitt said about Cruise. “Yes, we had our go-cart days back in the 90s,” even though he said the cruise usually beat him on the go-cart track.
“F1” director Joseph Kosinski, who also led “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022, said that there is a possibility “Days of Thunder” can be woven into a future “F1” follower.
“Well, right now, (the sequel would) be Cole Trickle, who was (Cruises) ‘Days of Thunder’ character,” Kosinski told GQ (Via Movieweb). “We discover that he and (Brad Pitts) Sonny Hayes have a past. They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed roads … I heard about this epic go-kart-struggle with” interview with The Vampire “that Brad and Tom had, and who would not pay to see the two go head-to-head on the course?”
Pitt and cruise Almost paired together In a racing drama based on the book “Go Like Hell” by AJ Baime. 2013, Thr is reported to Pitt and Cruise were in conversation with starting in that movieThat would take six years to actually get to the screen. Even before that, the project had undergone several potential incarnations, with Pitt rumored to be on the casting list as early as 2009.
In the end, none of them in the movie in the movie, and “Go Like Hell” was a title that was eventually scrapped as well. It became instead “Ford v. Ferrari,” Star Christian Bale and Matt Damon, netted four Oscar nominations (including best image) and shaved over $ 225 million at the checkout.
