Tom Cruise is in early talks for a ‘Days of Thunder’ sequel

Legacy sequels person go 1 of nan biggest caller veins of Hollywood IP successful caller years, and fewer stars cognize that amended than Tom Cruise. The actor, who starred successful nan hugely successful Top Gun: Maverick, is now reportedly successful talks to prima successful different sequel to 1 of his earlier hits.

Variety is reporting that Cruise is successful early talks to prima successful a sequel to Days of Thunder, his 1990 movie astir a title car driver who is recruited to a caller NASCAR squad led by Robert Duvall. Days of Thunder is Cruise’s only charismatic penning in installments to date, and it’s besides wherever he met Nicole Kidman, who he would beryllium joined to for 11 years.

No different creatives are successful spot connected nan project, and Cruise has a afloat sheet successful beforehand of him, including nan next Mission: Impossible movie, a caller task from head Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and a sequel to Top Gun: Maverick, truthful it’s adjacent to opportunity that this Days of Thunder sequel would beryllium a ways off.

By nan standards of Cruise’s stardom, Days of Thunder was only a humble hit, making conscionable northbound of $150 cardinal astatine nan world container office. In nan years since nan film’s release, though, its estimation has grown, and a sequel mightiness make consciousness fixed nan spate of caller precocious floor plan racing movies that person deed theaters. If thie sequel does yet materialize, it’s adjacent to expect that nan stunt activity will beryllium moreover much awesome than it was successful nan original film.