Joseph Kosinski Wants Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise to Team Up for ‘Days of Thunder’ Meets ‘F1’ Sequel:

Director Joseph Kosinski, who’s behind the upcoming racing film F1, is already thinking about a possible sequel, and he’s got a big idea for it. While speaking with GQ Magazine UK, Kosinski said he’d love to bring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise together on screen again, this time in a crossover between F1 and Days of Thunder.

Kosinski has worked with Cruise before on Top Gun: Maverick, and they’re also developing a third Top Gun movie. Now he wants Cruise to return as Cole Trickle, his character from the 1990 racing film, and go up against Pitt’s new character Sonny Hayes from F1.

“Well, right now, it’d be Cole Trickle, who was [Cruise’s] ‘Days of Thunder’ character, we find out that he and [Brad Pitt’s] Sonny Hayes have a past,” Kosinski said. “They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed paths… I heard about this epic go-kart battle on ‘Interview With a Vampire’ that Brad and Tom had, and who wouldn’t pay to see those two go head-to-head on the track?”

This wouldn’t be Kosinski’s first time trying to bring Pitt and Cruise into the same racing film. He once planned a version of Ford v Ferrari that would’ve starred both actors doing their own driving. But the studio didn’t approve the budget, so the project never happened. Instead, James Mangold directed it with Christian Bale and Matt Damon.

“Yeah, I got close with that,” Kosinski said. “But yeah, you know, everything worked out for the best. I got to do ‘F1.’ But anything’s possible.”

Pitt and Cruise haven’t acted together since Interview With the Vampire came out in 1994, though they’ve stayed friends. Pitt even showed up to the London premiere of F1 and posed for photos with Cruise.

Earlier this month, Pitt joked to E! News that he’d work with Cruise again as long as he doesn’t have to do Cruise-style stunts. “I’m not gonna hang my ass off airplanes and shit like that,” he said.

Meanwhile, Cruise told Today Show Australia in May that he’s still thinking about a follow-up to Days of Thunder. “We’re thinking and talking about what could we do and what’s possible,” he said.

As for Top Gun 3, Kosinski told GQ that the idea is coming together, and it will take Maverick’s story in a bold new direction. “It’s a really existential crisis that Maverick has in this, and it’s much bigger than himself,” he said. “There’s still more story to tell for him. There’s one last ride. So we’re working on it now… we’ll only do it if we feel like we’ve got a strong enough story.”

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