Are you ready for Days of Thunder 2?

Following the massive success of last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise is reportedly dropping the hammer on Days of Thunder 2.

According to Giant Freakin Robot (and credited to unspecified sources), Cruise is developing a script for a sequel to the late Tony Scott’s 1990 NASCAR flick, with Maverick director Joseph Kosinski at the helm.

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Days of Thunder, which starred Cruise as fresh-to-the-series racer Cole Trickle, didn’t attract the same kind of success as the OG Top Gun enjoyed in 1987.

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It raked in less than half the box office earnings and earned middle-of-the-road reviews, meaning it hasn't been the most attractive source for a legacy sequel.

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Revisiting the film has been on the radar, though, with Cruise turning down Paramount Pictures' offer of a Days of Thunder TV series last year. If Cruise was already putting together a movie script, his decision makes sense.

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The actor, famed for doing his own stunt work, was recently seen crewing for Mercedes on a pitstop during Miami Grand Prix practice. It may have just been a publicity stunt, but we’d like to believe it represents him getting back into car mode.

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Robert Duvall (now 92) featured as Trickle’s crew chief in Days of Thunder, with Nicole Kidman as his on-screen love interest. No bets on her returning, given she split with Cruise in 2001.

John C. Reilly also made an early-career appearance as Trickle’s car chief; here’s hoping he’s up for another round as a great full-circle callback to Talladega Nights, where he raced a Monte Carlo NASCAR alongside Will Ferrell’s Ricky Bobby.

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Though it’s far too early to know any plot details, maybe we’ll see Trickle or a new generation under his tutelage take on Le Mans in a NASCAR - recent historical precedent, and all.