{"id":753879,"date":"2026-08-29T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753879\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:22:10","slug":"tom-cruises-days-of-thunder-sequel-adds-anne-hathaway-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753879\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise&#8217;s &#8216;Days of Thunder&#8217; Sequel Adds Anne Hathaway To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tParamount Pictures is really revving its engines on the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/days-of-thunder-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_days-of-thunder-2\" data-tag=\"days-of-thunder-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Days of Thunder 2<\/a> starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tom-cruise\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-cruise\" data-tag=\"tom-cruise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/anne-hathaway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anne-hathaway\" data-tag=\"anne-hathaway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Hathaway<\/a> now set to join Cruise in the sequel. Cruise revealed the news Saturday on his social platforms featuring a picture of the two A-listers leaning against a NASCAR race car in Daytona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe post also announced that the film would be released June 2, 2028. The movie will be filmed for Imax and also available in Dolby cinemas, 4DX and premium large-screen formats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHathaway\u2019s addition comes after Paramount <a data-id=\"1237000297\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/tom-cruise-days-of-thunder-jonathan-levine-1237000297\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tapped Jonathan Levine to direct<\/a>, hence fast-tracking the pic as Cruise\u2019s next project. Cruise returns as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle, reprising the role from his 1990 hit racing pic. While plot details are unknown, Hathaway is expected to play a team owner and engineer in the follow-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCruise is also producing alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper. Will Staples penned the script.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDays of Thunder, directed by the late Tony Scott, was released during the summer of 1990 and made $82.6 million at the domestic box office, and $157.9M worldwide. Cruise played Cole Trickle in the Robert Towne-written pic, a hot-headed rookie stock car driver who joins NASCAR and must overcome personal and professional challenges to achieve success. The film also saw him introduced to Nicole Kidman, who became his wife of 11 years, and who went on to star with him in Ron Howard\u2019s Far and Away and Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Eyes Wide Shut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCruise conceived the story for the racing movie,which was produced by Don Simpson and Bruckheimer. Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Caroline Williams and Michael Rooker also starred in the original.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs for Hathaway, she is coming off a big summer that included The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey and The End of Oak Street. She can be seen next in Verity, which bows in October. She is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures is really revving its engines on the upcoming Days of Thunder 2 starring Tom Cruise, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9018,248788,96,59,17293,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-days-of-thunder-2","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-tom-cruise","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753879","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=753879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}