Top Gun<\/a> helmer Tony Scott, and while it didn\u2019t fly as high as the latter, it still proved to be among the more memorable Cruise outings. The actor played hotshot NASCAR racer Cole Trickle who lives life on the fast lane, while crashing cars, finding love and winning Daytona 500s.<\/p>\n\n\tThe stellar cast included Robert Duvall and Nicole Kidman, as well as Cary Elwes and Randy Quaid.<\/p>\n
\n\tDetails for the new story are being kept under the hood but the script is written by Will Staples, who has written video games such as Call of Duty 3: Modern Warfare, and co-wrote the Michael B. Jordan action movie Without Remorse. <\/p>\n
\n\tFew directors have as varied a resume in Hollywood as Levine, who has successfully shifted lanes from slasher horror (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) to Sundance audience winners (The Wackness) to cancer dramedy (50\/50) to zombie love story (Warm Bodies). He even has Seth Rogen comedies The Night Before and Long Shot, the latter also starring Charlize Theron, on the list.<\/p>\n
\n\tLevine most recently spent time in the prestige TV world, directing episodes of Hulu\u2019s Nine Perfect Strangers, the drama starring Kidman and co-created by David E. Kelley.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe is repped by WME and Goodman Genow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The engines are ready to roar again. Paramount is finally putting the pedal to the floor on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,234047,96,148092,17293,88065,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-705680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-days-of-thunder","tag-entertainment","tag-jonathan-levine","tag-tom-cruise","tag-top-gun","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}