50/50 Director Jonathan Levine in Talks to Direct Tom Cruise Sequel Days of Thunder 2

Director Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies) is reportedly successful talks to helm the long-awaited travel up to 1990 racing action-drama Days of Thunder, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Star Tom Cruise is aboard to reprise his relation arsenic NASCAR operator and Daytona 500 champ Cole Trickle, and is producing alongside Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer produced the archetypal Days of Thunder successful concern with Don Simpson, who died successful 1996.

The Hollywood Reporter notes Days of Thunder 2 is intended to beryllium Cruise’s adjacent production.

No further details are disposable successful presumption of the planned communicative for the sequel, oregon however it picks up from the original, but a publication has been written by screenwriter and writer Will Staples. Staples wrote the crippled Call of Duty 3: Modern Warfare alongside Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash) and Michael B. Jordan’s Without Remorse alongside Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Yellowstone). His relation with Cruise whitethorn day backmost to a rewrite of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation helium was hired to tackle successful 2014.

Days of Thunder is simply a fondly-remembered racing classic, which reteamed Cruise with precocious manager Tony Scott pursuing their enactment unneurotic connected 1986’s Top Gun. Its stacked formed includes the precocious Robert Duvall, arsenic good arsenic Nicole Kidman, Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly, Cary Elwes, and Randy Quaid. It besides features a fabulous people from legendary composer Hans Zimmer.

It’s been good implicit 3 decades since it deed cinemas but, successful the aftermath of the occurrence of the F1 movie (plus Cruise’s ain bequest sequel triumph with Top Gun: Maverick), it surely feels similar the close clip to get backmost connected track.

Days of Thunder 2 is not the lone sequel Cruise has connected his plate, either; successful April, 2026 Paramount confirmed the much-discussed sequel to Top Gun: Maverick was locked successful and officially underway.

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