Report: Days of Thunder 2 in development by Tom Cruise & Joseph Kosinski

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They built on the success of Top Gun, and now they may redeem the failure of Days of Thunder.

According to our trusted and proven sources, Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski are collaborating once more on Days of Thunder 2. They first worked together on the 2013 post-apocalyptic adventure film Oblivion.

That Tom Cruise wants to make Days of Thunder 2 could in part explain something from a story The Hollywood Reporter published last March. The outlet reported that Cruise was locked in a legal battle with Paramount over the release of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One.

Among the issues Cruise and Paramount had allegedly locked horns over, THR said Cruise had given a thumbs down to the studio’s pitches for two streaming series: one based on Days of Thunder, and the other spinning out of the Mission: Impossible films.

Considering what we’ve learned, it’s tempting to speculate that — assuming THR’s report was accurate — Tom Cruise may have said no to the Days of Thunder series because of the possibility of a Days of Thunder 2.

With Days of Thunder 2 still in development, there’s no word on which, if any, of Tom Cruise’s surviving Days of Thunder co-stars might join him for the sequel. When we know, we’ll make sure you know.

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