Tom Cruise is set to film a sequel to his 1990 Nascar hit Days Of Thunder with Anne Hathaway, both actors announced in a video posted Saturday on social media.
The Paramount Pictures movie with Cruise reprising his role as Nascar driver Cole Trickle and Hathaway playing a team owner and engineer will be filmed in Imax and is expected to be released in the summer of 2028.
Jonathan Levine, whose credits include Warm Bodies and Long Shot, is directing, and Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper are producing along with Cruise.
The original film, which earned US$157.9mil worldwide at the box office, was directed by the late Tony Scott and starred Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes and John C. Reilly as well as Nicole Kidman, who met Cruise during filming in 1989. The couple married in 1990 and divorced in 2001.
The sequel will see Cruise and Bruckheimer join forces again on another legacy sequel after their work on 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, which came out 36 years after the original blockbuster and grossed US$1.5bil.
Hathaway, who won a supporting actress Oscar in 2013 for her role in Les Misérables, currently stars in the epic drama The Odyssey, one of a string of big films including The Devil Wears Prada 2 the actress starred in this year. - Los Angeles Times/TNS
