{"id":831135,"date":"2026-08-30T19:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:14:13","slug":"original-days-of-thunder-star-rails-against-anne-hathaway-casting-horrible-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831135\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Days of Thunder star rails against Anne Hathaway casting: \u2018Horrible choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the Days of Thunder follow up film was announced Saturday by Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway, many fans were thrilled<\/a> \u2014 with one notable exception.<\/p>\n

Randy Quaid<\/a>, who starred with Cruise in the original 1990 Nascar film<\/a>, ranted about Hathaway\u2019s casting in a post on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnne Hathaway<\/a> is a leftist, woke, horrible choice for DAYS OF THUNDER NASCAR audience who are MAGA,\u201d Quaid began. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe sexy older chick for Tom in this film needs to be Nicole,\u201d he continued, likely referring to Nicole Kidman<\/a> who starred in the original film. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the casting that would sell the idea. It\u2019s interesting because when we made the first one there was also a rush to get it out; editors slept in the cutting room on shifts. This is a weird thing, like they want it to come out and tank.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RandyRandy Quaid has railed against the forthcoming \u2018Days of Thunder\u2019 film (Randy Quaid\/X)<\/p>\n

In a separate post, Quaid again advocated for Kidman\u2019s casting while railing against Hathaway and Cruise, writing: \u201cWe need Nicole back. Don\u2019t be a p***y, @TomCruise. You need the original girl. It\u2019s not personal; it\u2019s filmmaking. Anne isn\u2019t sexy, because and if you haven\u2019t noticed, she\u2019s pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in yet another post, he wrote: \u201cIf I were in control of production, a real sequel worth watching for DAYS OF THUNDER would be seeing Tom and Nicole together on screen again. We don\u2019t need a new girl; we need a new race car!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted representatives for Cruise and Hathaway for comment.<\/p>\n

Hathaway is one of the most in-demand stars in Hollywood, with four films out already this year and another \u2014 Verity, the latest film adaptation from author Colleen Hoover<\/a> \u2014 slated for an October release. <\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise and Anne Hathaway are teaming up for a ‘Days of Thunder’ follow up film (PA)<\/p>\n

An Oscar winner for the 2012 film adaptation of Les Mis\u00e9rables, Hathaway is also pregnant with her third child. She confirmed in the announcement for the Days of Thunder sequel that she\u2019ll give birth before filming commences.<\/p>\n

Hathaway and Cruise <\/a>will film the sequel nearly 40 years after the original movie was released. The new film is slated for a June 2028 release.<\/p>\n

According to Variety<\/a>, Cruise will reprise his role from the first film as Cole Trickle. Hathaway will play a racecar team owner and engineer. Jonathan Levine will direct, and Cruise will produce alongside Jerry Bruckheimer and Tommy Harper.<\/p>\n

In addition to Cruise, the original Days of Thunder starred Kidman, Quaid, Robert Duvall and John C. Reilly. It is not yet clear whether any of the original cast will return for the follow up. Duvall died earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-831135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}