{"id":877275,"date":"2026-08-30T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877275\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:38:12","slug":"tom-cruise-filmed-slipping-inside-daytona-speedway-to-announce-days-of-thunder-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/877275\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Filmed Slipping Inside Daytona Speedway to Announce &#8216;Days of Thunder&#8217; Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Tom Cruise<br \/>\n                          Revs Up Engines For &#8216;Days Of Thunder&#8217; Sequel &#8230;<br \/>\n                          Anne Hathaway Rides Shotgun<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              August 30, 2026<br \/>\n                            6:20 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2b8a5110f91d47f89664ef3cfbe85705_md.png\" alt=\"083026_tom_cruise_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tom-cruise\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise<\/a> is slamming his foot on the gas pedal again with a sequel to his ultra-popular 1990 NASCAR flick, &#8220;Days of Thunder,&#8221; but this time around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/anne-hathaway\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Hathaway<\/a> is coming along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8230; Cruise will be driving the film, aptly titled, &#8220;Days of Thunder 2,&#8221; with Hathway in the passenger seat and it&#8217;s set to be released June 2, 2028. Cruise will reprise his role as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle and Hathaway will play a team owner and engineer.<\/p>\n<p>The costars cut a promo for the sequel, which was posted on Instagram, and it begins with Cruise checking to see if the camera is on as a pregnant Hathaway stands nearby.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hathaway turns to Cruise and asks what they should do. Cruise says, &#8220;show them,&#8221; and both walk back to lean against a stock car emblazoned with the name of the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20220927_f6f2ac81dbcd43ccae99a74c1e34ef9c\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:07d47f91-79ef-49dd-9031-ebb044069147\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f6f2ac81dbcd43ccae99a74c1e34ef9c_md.jpg\" alt=\"tom cruise nicole kidman getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>As everyone knows, the original film starred Cruise with his ex-wife, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/nicole-kidman\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Kidman<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/robert-duvall\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Duvall<\/a>, and was a smash hit at the box office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cruise announced the sequel Saturday night at the Daytona International Speedway &#8212; and TMZ obtained video from nearby eatery Cheese Burger Baby showing the superstar entering the racetrack through a VIP area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_png_20260830_16d2d9fa31cc4e6c99ed5aa369a6f0e7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:07d47f91-79ef-49dd-9031-ebb044069147\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/16d2d9fa31cc4e6c99ed5aa369a6f0e7_md.png\" alt=\"083026_tom_cruise_sub\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check it out &#8230; Tom walks up to shake hands with some dude surrounded by security before disappearing inside the venue to give a speech to NASCAR executives about the racing community.<\/p>\n<p>With the sequel, Tom said his goal is to give the audience an opportunity to &#8220;understand what it is as a team, as a community, what it is for NASCAR, and the speed, the excitement and all that danger and stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Revs Up Engines For &#8216;Days Of Thunder&#8217; Sequel &#8230; Anne Hathaway Rides Shotgun Published August 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,8469,90815,90816,90817,82],"class_list":["post-877275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-nicole-kidman-gossip","tag-nicole-kidman-news","tag-nicole-mary-kidman","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}