Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski has suggested an idea that would see Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt reunite over 30 years after they starred in Interview With The Vampire together.
Earlier this month, Pitt said he’d be open to working with Cruise again, but only if they remained on the ground.
“Well, I’m not gonna hang my ass off airplanes and shit like that,” Pitt joked at the F1: The Movie premiere on June 9. “So when he does something again that’s on the ground, [then yes].”
Kosinski, who directed F1, told GQ that both Cruise and Pitt are in a select list of three or four names who are big enough to have the lead role in films of that scale, before he was asked if he had any ideas of how to get them both in a movie alongside each other.
He replied: “Well, right now, it’d be Cole Trickle, who was [Cruise’s] Days of Thunder character, we find out that he and [F1 lead] Sonny Hayes have a past. They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed paths … I heard about this epic go-kart battle on Interview With [The] Vampire that Brad and Tom had, and who wouldn’t pay to see those two go head-to-head on the track?”
Also in the interview, he discussed the importance of having Pitt and co-star Damson Idris driving real cars in front of real fans on real Formula One tracks. “I really believe that the audience feels that, in their gut, when they’re watching something and it has been captured for real,” he said. “The scale and spectacle of a Formula One race is not something that I think you can stage with all of the money in the world. Seeing the real drivers and the real cars in the background is, again, not something that you could recreate.
“I love the idea, and the challenge, of seeing if we could shoot a big movie during a live sporting event — during nine of them, or 10, if you include Daytona. You feel like you’re there, because we were.”
Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes and Javier Bardem as Ruben Cervantes in Apple Original Films’ ‘F1 The Movie’. CREDIT: Apple TV+
Idris, meanwhile, told NME of working with Pitt and Javier Bardem: “They encourage the things I’m doing. And a lot of it is outside of the acting and about how I am in my day-to-day. They admire that I’m having fun – they always say that: ‘Man, you know how to have fun.’ And I think that’s so important. We see so many people reach these amazing levels and they constantly talk about how it’s horrible: ‘I hate this and I can’t do this and I hate fame.’”
In a four-star review, NME said of F1, which is out in cinemas now: “The film’s souped-up denouement at the Abu Dhabi grand prix is utterly ludicrous, but by this point, F1 The Movie has built up enough goodwill to get away with it. Buckle up and enjoy the ride, safe in the knowledge that the tyre talk never gets too overwhelming.”
As for Cruise, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie revealed last month that a third Top Gear movie was “already in the bag”.
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