Daytona Beach, Florida – Help it, Tom Cruise!
The member of the Nascar Hall of Fame, Jeff Gordon, wants a sequel to “Days of Thunder” and said in Daytona International Speedway that he has been in contact with the Hollywood actor on making the project come alive.
“I have talked absolutely with Tom about it because I want the project to do,” Gordon said. “We want to be part of that if it was going to happen.”
He Hollywood Reporter reported in November that Cruise had spoken with Supreme on a follow -up of its 1990 Nascar racing film. The original was a criticized summer box office that was largely ridiculed throughout the Nascar industry for its exaggeration and excessive indulgence.
Throughout the decades, the film has become a favorite of cult in Nascar’s circles and is still cited by racing fans to this day.
“Rubbin ‘, son, is Racin’ ‘, lives in the immortal line of the Harry Hogge crew, played by Robert Duvall.
Mounting on his fame “Top Gun”, Cruise had an idea for a movie based on fast cars and the characters that ran them. And so the realization of “Days of Thunder” began.
Gordon could inspire Cole Trickle de Cruise in the day, although the character was freely based on the late Tim Richmond. Gordon, now Vice President of Hendrick Motorsports, Won the Daytona 500 Sunday with the owner of the Rick Hendrick team and the pilot William Byron. Gordon and Cruise have remained friendly: Cruise appeared on a 2015 Nascar banquet to honor the retired Gordon, which could increase the perspective of the participation of Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports in a sequel.
“It seems he likes to make fun of him, so I don’t know,” Gordon said Sunday night. “We will see what happens. If that does not happen, I feel quite sure that there is a project out there that will take Nascar to the big screen, if not only a really great docuserie or something beyond what we are already seeing right now. “
The film finally presented Nascar to a broader audience that had a very limited exhibition to car races before that summer. There had been racing films before, thinking about “Thunder Road”, “Grand Prix”, “Stroker Ace”, or even “smokey and the bandit”, but none who had represented Nascar in such a conventional style.
“It’s hard to imagine how you achieve that today because they really had race cars with cameras in the race, and the cameras were great,” Gordon said. “The cameras have become much smaller, so maybe you could do it, but how do you do it and do it realistic and really authentic?”
Nascar has seen more swings and failures than the checkered flags when it comes to their representation on the big or small screen from “Days of Thunder”. For each “Talladega Nights”, there are 10 more bombs, such as the unfortunate Netflix comedy series of comedian Kevin James “,”, “,”, “,” The crew“Gordon said he was feeding that the best days are ahead to Nascar in the entertainment industry.
“I am seeing much more impulse in projects such as coming through Nascar and come to Hendrick Motorsports and only more interest,” he said. “So that’s good, right? He talks a lot about where the sport is, where he goes, the incredible crowd that was here all weekend, not only today, new television partners. “
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