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 creating a film that includes Pitt’s racing driver Sonny Hayes and Cruise’s NASCAR driver Cole Trickle from the 1990 movie however acknowledged that it will be “tough” to place collectively.
Joseph informed Collider: “A reporter requested me a query and mentioned, ‘Should you may make a film with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, what would that film be?’
“And I simply sort of threw out this concept that Sonny Hayes comes again to the world of F1 and bumps into his previous rival, Cole Trickle, who raced NASCAR within the ’90s, and so they cross paths once more.
“I simply thought that may be a extremely nice story, however most likely unimaginable to make. Discuss Mission: Inconceivable. That will be a difficult, tough movie to drag off.”
Kosinski has labored carefully with each actors and revealed how the pair of them have been lined as much as star collectively in racing movie Ford v Ferrari – which ended up being launched in 2019 with Matt Damon and Christian Bale within the main roles.
The High Gun: Maverick helmer mentioned: “I truly did do a desk learn for a film referred to as Go Like Hell, which turned Ford v Ferrari. I used to be creating that with each of them in it for some time, and I did a script read-through at Tom’s home with Brad, the three of us collectively. So, that was fairly surreal.
“Then Tom was very variety to return to the F1 premiere in London, so it was an opportunity to see the 2 of them collectively once more. However yeah, that may be superb if we may work out a technique to get them each in the identical movie.”
F1 has been successful on the field workplace this summer time – changing into the highest-grossing film of Pitt’s profession – and Kosinski feels “reduction” that the film has gone down effectively.
He defined: “Anytime a movie works, it is, for me, only a sigh of reduction, you recognize? Since you simply by no means know what is going on to occur.
“You simply by no means know. You haven’t any sense of how a film goes to play till the film opens. So, it has been nice to see how the movie has been acquired.”
Kosinski believes that the success of F1 is an effective factor for the film business as it’s an “unique” story.
The Tron: Legacy director mentioned: “It is an unique movie. This isn’t a sequel. This isn’t a reboot. These should not characters that exist in some other IP.
“To have an unique movie play in a summer time full of superb movies, however sequels and reboots and superheroes, has been unbelievable. I believe that is what we would like. We wish a various slate in our moviegoing expertise. We wish unique films, we would like sequels, we would like reboots. We wish all of it.”
