With F1 getting good reviews and riding high at the box office, everyone has wanted a piece of director Joseph Kosinski. One topic has come up a few times: links between Days Of Thunder and F1.
Kosinski directed Tom Cruise for Jerry Bruckheimer in Top Gun: Maverick, and we all know how successful that movie was. Cruise is set to re-team with Bruckheimer for a Maverick-style legacy sequel to the racing movie.
Meanwhile, Cruise and Pitt famously worked together on Neil Jordan’s Interview With A Vampire. Cruise was also massively supportive of F1, and appeared on the red carpet alongside his friend Pitt.
Cruise’s character Cole Trickle had made a debut in open-wheel racing in Days Of Thunder before switching racing formulas.
Fans seemingly cannot stop drawing the lines and making the connections. When asked about this by GQ, Kosinski revealed he already has a pitch for a crossover:
“Right now, it’d be Cole Trickle [Cruise’s Days of Thunder character]. We find out that he and Sonny Hayes [Pitt’s F1 character] have a past. They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed paths… I heard about this epic go-kart battle on Interview with the Vampire that Brad and Tom had, and who wouldn’t pay to see those two go head-to-head on the track?”
Kosinski is rumored to be in the running for the Days of Thunder sequel. He is also in full development mode on Top Gun 3, a movie that has to be made relatively quickly given the physical demands of the shoot and the star’s age. Speaking of Top Gun 3, he said:
“I think we’ve found a way to do it, not only in the scale of what we’re proposing, but the idea itself of the story we’re telling. We’re thinking much bigger than…It’s a really existential crisis that Maverick has in this, and it’s much bigger than himself.
It actually… I’m trying to describe it without giving anything away. [Laughs.] It’s an existential question that Maverick has to deal with, that would make Maverick feel small, I think, as a movie, compared to what we’re talking about.
Yeah, there’s still more story to tell for him. There’s one last ride. So we’re working on it now. Ehren Kruger, who wrote F1, is writing the script. Like all things, it takes a while to work things out, and we’ll only do it if we feel like we’ve got a strong enough story.”
Kosinski is also set for the new Miami Vice movie for Universal.
