Daytona Beach, Florida (AP) – Help him, Tom Cruise!
The Nascar Hall of Famer, Jeff Gordon, wanted a suite “Days of Thunder” and told Daytona International Speedway that he was in contact with the Hollywood actor for the project to life.
“I absolutely talked to Tom because I want him to do the project,” said Gordon. “We want to be part of it if it should happen.”
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The Hollywood Reporter reported in November that Cruise had spoken to Paramount about a follow -up of his 1990 Nascar Racing film. The original was a critical scanning summer blockbuster that was largely supported in the NASCAR industry for its exaggeration and its exaggeration.
Over the decades, the film has since become a cult favorite in Nascar circles and is still quoted by racing fans to date.
“Rubbin ‘, son, racked” “,” Living, the immortal line of the Crew Manager Harry Hogge, played by Robert Duvall.
Halling high of its reputation “Top Gun”, Cruise had an idea for a film based on fast cars and the characters who ran them. And thus began the manufacture of “Thunder days”.
Gordon could inspire that Cole Traffle de Cruise at the time, although the character was vaguely based on the late Tim Richmond. Gordon, now vice-president of Hendrick Motorsports, won the Daytona 500 on Sunday with the owner of the Rick Hendrick team and driver William Byron. Gordon and Cruise remained friendly – Cruise presented himself in a 2015 NASCAR banquet to honor the retired Gordon – which could stimulate the prospect of the participation of Gordon and Hendrick Motorsports in a suite.
“He seems to like to tease him, so I don’t know,” said Gordon on Sunday evening. “We will see what’s going on. If this does not happen, I am confident enough that there is a project that will bring Nascar back on the big screen, otherwise really cool documentation or something beyond what we already see at the moment. “”
The film finally introduced Nascar to a wider audience which had a very limited exhibition for car races in stock before this summer. There had been racing films before – think of “Thunder Road”, “Grand Prix”, “Stroker Ace”, or even “Smokey and the Bandit” – but none that had represented Nascar in such a general public style.
“Difficult to imagine how you finish it today because they actually had racing cars with cameras in the race, and the cameras were big,” said Gordon. “The cameras have become much smaller, so maybe you could remove it, but how do you do it and make it realistic and really authentic?”
Nascar has seen more swings and failures than checkered flags with regard to its representation on the large or small screen from “Days of Thunder”. For all the “Talladega evenings”, there are 10 additional bombs such as the unhappy Netflix series of the actor Kevin James, “The Crew.” Gordon said he had been encouraged that the better days were ahead of Nascar in the entertainment industry.
“I just see much more momentum in projects like coming by Nascar and coming to Hendrick Motorsports and just more interest,” he said. “So it’s good, right?” He talks a lot about the place where sport is, where the incredible crowd was headed here all weekend, not only today, new television partners. “”
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