Joseph Kosinski hopes to unite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise for a crossover sequel between F1 and Days of Thunder.
The 51-year-old director has expressed hope of making a movie featuring Pitt’s racing driver Sonny Hayes and Cruise’s NASCAR driver Cole Trickle from the 1990 film but acknowledged that it would be ‘tricky’ to put together.
Joseph told Collider: ‘A reporter asked me a question and said, “If you could make a movie with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, what would that movie be?”
‘And I just kind of threw out this idea that Sonny Hayes comes back to the world of F1 and bumps into his old rival, Cole Trickle, who raced NASCAR in the ’90s, and they cross paths again.
‘I just thought that would be a really great story, but probably impossible to make. Talk about Mission: Impossible. That would be a tricky, tricky film to pull off.’
Joseph Kosinski hopes to unite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise for a crossover sequel between F1 and Days of Thunder. Seen in June at the F1 premiere in London
The 51-year-old director has expressed hope of making a movie featuring Pitt’s racing driver Sonny Hayes and Cruise’s NASCAR driver Cole Trickle from the 1990 film but acknowledged that it would be ‘tricky’ to put together
It has been 31 years since Cruise and Pitt co-starred in the 1994 movie Interview With The Vampire, based on an Anne Rice book.
Kosinski has worked closely with both actors and revealed how the pair of them were lined up to star together in racing film Ford v Ferrari – which ended up being released in 2019 with Matt Damon and Christian Bale in the leading roles.
The Top Gun: Maverick director said: ‘I actually did do a table read for a movie called Go Like Hell, which became Ford v Ferrari.
‘I was developing that with both of them in it for a while, and I did a script read-through at Tom’s house with Brad, the three of us together. So, that was pretty surreal.
‘Then Tom was very kind to come to the F1 premiere in London, so it was a chance to see the two of them together again. But yeah, that would be amazing if we could figure out a way to get them both in the same film.’
F1 has been a hit at the box office this summer – becoming the highest-grossing movie of Pitt’s career – and Kosinski feels ‘relief’ that the movie has gone down well.
He explained: ‘Anytime a film works, it’s, for me, just a sigh of relief, you know? Because you just never know what’s going to happen.
Damson Idris as Joshua Pearce, left, and Pitt as Sonny Hayes in a scene from F1 The Movie
It has been 31 years since Cruise and Pitt co-starred in the 1994 movie Interview With The Vampire, based on an Anne Rice book
‘You just never know. You have no sense of how a movie is going to play until the movie opens.
‘So, it’s been great to see how the film has been received.’
Kosinski believes that the success of F1 is a good thing for the movie industry as it is an ‘original’ story.
The Tron: Legacy director said: ‘It’s an original film. This is not a sequel. This is not a reboot. These are not characters that exist in any other IP.
‘To have an original film play in a summer filled with amazing films, but sequels and reboots and superheroes, has been incredible.
‘I think that’s what we want. We want a diverse slate in our moviegoing experience. We want original movies, we want sequels, we want reboots. We want it all.’
