Anne Hathaway has joined Tom Cruise for the Days of Thunder sequel, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Paramount has set a June 2, 2028, launch date for the follow-up to the 1990 film, which will even be filmed for Imax and launched in theaters in Dolby Cinema, 4DX and premium giant codecs.
Cruise will return as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle, whereas Hathaway will play a staff proprietor and engineer. Additional plot particulars are underneath wraps. The Prime Gun star will even produce alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper.
A script can be penned by Will Staples, with Jonathan Levine set to direct, as THR completely reported in July. Staples has beforehand written video video games together with Name of Responsibility 3: Trendy Warfare and co-wrote the Michael B. Jordan motion film With out Regret.
Days of Thunder was a reunion for Cruise along with his Prime Gun director, Tony Scott, and is taken into account one of many actor’s most memorable roles. The movie adopted Cole as he was recruited by a retired racing legend, performed by Robert Duvall, to a brand new NASCAR staff. Further castmembers included Nicole Kidman, Cary Elwes and Randy Quaid.
Cruise’s movies, together with Prime Gun, Prime Gun: Maverick, Dangerous Enterprise, Jerry Maguire, the Mission: Unimaginable sequence, have helped make him considered one of Hollywood’s greatest field workplace stars, along with his movies grossing greater than $13 billion globally. Subsequent up, he’s set to star in Digger, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, which can be launched in theaters on Oct. 2.
Hathaway is coming off a packed launch schedule, with movies reminiscent of The Satan Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey and The Finish of Oak Avenue debuting this 12 months. The Oscar winner’s subsequent position is in Verity, primarily based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, which can also be set for launch on Oct. 2.
