All 16 NASCAR Cup drivers who certified for the Chase took half in Media Day on Wednesday, and several other fielded questions concerning the long-awaited Days of Thunder sequel that’s coming to theaters in June of 2028. Tom Cruise will once more star as fictional NASCAR driver Cole Trickle, with Anne Hathaway co-starring as a group proprietor/engineer.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been in touch with the minds creating a script for the movie for over a yr, and is amongst these very excited to see the film come collectively.
However what do the present stars of the game assume? Here is a sampling from Media Day:
Carson Hocevar — “Tremendous cool to place my enter into the film”
(Talladega winner, No. 12 Chase seed)
“That was truly the primary time I met him (Tom Cruise). We had been attempting to line up together with his group on when to fulfill him, and his safety guard got here and grabbed me and stood me proper in entrance of him. I used to be speaking to the sailors earlier, they usually had been followers of me. He was taking place the road of sailors and sort of glanced over to see if there was one other one. He appeared again and realized it was me. They had been telling me, “When he sees you, he’ll acknowledge you. He loves you.” That’s tremendous cool, that’s enjoyable. It has been tremendous cool to place my enter into the film; give concepts and video clips from real-life moments from the final 20 years.”
Kyle Larson — Showing within the film “can be a cool alternative”
(2x NASCAR Cup champion, No. 7 Chase seed)
“Oh, I do not know. I imply, it is no matter they need. I believe it might be a cool alternative, for certain, however I am additionally not an actor, so I do not wish to make the movie worse. It was superior to get the chance to fulfill him (Tom Cruise). He is a celeb like I’ve by no means met earlier than in my life. You might inform he was totally different than the remainder of us, in a cool approach, like actually, actually cool. We received to fulfill him in a previous assembly earlier than the driving force’s assembly, and it was simply cool to listen to him speak about us. He sort of already is aware of somewhat bit about us, so I assumed that was neat. I look ahead to sort of seeing the method of them making a film and having, hopefully, us concerned in some type or vogue of serving to to construct a storyline, be part of the film or no matter.
“I might love them (Hendrick Motorsports) to be concerned, and I do not assume there’s one other group within the sport that may do as a lot or pretty much as good of a job of serving to construct one of the best movie potential than Hendrick Motorsports. They only go above and past on every thing, they usually have the expertise of serving to out with the final one. I have never heard in the event that they’re part of it or not. I hope they’re. I believe that’d be simply actually cool and superior to see that sort of taking place throughout the partitions of Hendrick Motorsports. I hope they will do one thing to work it out to be part of it as a result of I believe it might make the film even higher.”
Denny Hamlin — “Excited to see the way it all seems”
(Winningest lively driver in NASCAR Cup with 64 wins, No. 1 Chase seed)
“Properly, like everybody else most likely on this trade, should you hit the TV Information and it is on, you normally click on on it. I assumed it was the primary sort of racing film I received launched to that really depicted the life-style of racing. And it felt actual to me again then. A whole lot of it was dramatized, after all, but it surely nonetheless was NASCAR. I am actually wanting ahead to sort of seeing how they depict that and the conversations and the issues that Tom (Cruise) and Jerry Bruckheimer (producer) have mentioned, you understand, that they wish to inform the story of NASCAR right here in the second. So I am excited to see the way it all seems.”
Chase Briscoe — Tom Cruise “simply felt like one of many guys”
(2x Southern 500 winner, No. 5 Chase seed)
“It was actually neat (to fulfill Cruise). It truly began earlier in that day. We had been doing our driver council assembly and that sort of door opened off to the facet and there was like two Suburbans there. Rapidly, Tom Cruise walked in and none of us knew that was taking place, and he is simply sitting there and talked with us for like 20, 25 minutes about his purpose of what to do with the film and the way he desires to color us out to be. And it was actually attention-grabbing simply listening to the parallels between High Gun and the way he seems like Days of Thunder may very well be. So yeah, it was cool. He was tremendous good. I assumed it was actually cool how he went to each single proprietor principally within the storage and frolicked with them and he simply felt like one of many guys in truth. You by no means know the way these, you understand, I assume superstars are going to be, and Tom, he may very well be hanging out in right here and simply be chilling with us. He was tremendous good.”
Joey Logano — “I might like to” be part of Days of Thunder 2
(3x NASCAR Cup champion, No. 9 Chase seed)
“I might like to. I imply, it’s a cool film. Are you kidding me? It might be some depraved cool dad factors to be in Days of Thunder, yeah. Hopefully, that occurs.”
William Byron — “Fairly cool” to see Tom Cruise at Daytona
(2x Daytona 500 winner, No. 13 Chase seed)
“Yeah, it’s positively cool and I’m excited for it. It was fairly cool to see Tom (Cruise) there final weekend. I’m wanting ahead to it.”
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