You would possibly need to ship that pilot jacket to the dry cleaners and clear up the Ray-Bans. Joseph Kosinski, the director of the Tom Cruise-led movies Oblivion and Prime Gun: Maverick, is presently turning his consideration to a different Hollywood legend. Kosinski is the director of F1, the motion epic starring Brad Pitt that is about to be launched. Nevertheless, as well-liked as that challenge has turned out to be, Kosinski can be presently creating one other extremely anticipated film. Prime Gun 3 will carry him again to the world of Cruise’s Maverick as soon as once more, and although the challenge is in its early levels, Kosinski has revealed some plot particulars that may have followers desperate to get again within the cockpit.
The F1 director sat down with GQ UK journal to speak about his newest movie, one much like Prime Gun when it comes to scale, however with racing automobiles as a substitute of jet fighters. Whereas he acknowledges that there are some similarities between F1 and Prime Gun: Maverick, Kosinski explains that “Prime Gun, at the least, was a sequel. That is an unique story with new characters.”
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The director was additionally requested about Prime Gun 3. The final information we obtained was again when Mission: Unattainable director and Prime Gun: Maverick co-screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie stated that there was a narrative deliberate out already. Kosinski has now shared that the movie will deal with an “existential query that Maverick has to take care of.” He additionally stated that author Ehren Kruger remains to be engaged on the screenplay:
“I believe we have discovered a solution to do it, not solely within the scale of what we’re proposing, however the thought itself of the story we’re telling. We’re pondering a lot greater than… It is a actually existential disaster that Maverick has on this, and it is a lot greater than himself. It truly… I am attempting to explain it with out giving something away. It is an existential query that Maverick has to take care of, that might make Maverick really feel small, I believe, as a film, in comparison with what we’re speaking about.
“There’s nonetheless extra story to inform for him. There’s one final journey. So we’re engaged on it now. Ehren Kruger, who wrote F1, is writing the script. Like all issues, it takes some time to work issues out, and we’ll solely do it if we really feel like we have a powerful sufficient story.”
Kosinski Playfully Pitched a Crossover Between ‘F1’ & ‘Days of Thunder’
Prime Gun 3 is not the legacy challenge that Tom Cruise is engaged on. The motion celebrity can be creating a legacy sequel to Days of Thunder, the 1990 racing epic that noticed him race on the NASCAR circuit. Additionally it is an thrilling challenge that may see Cruise reprise considered one of his most memorable characters outdoors the Mission: Unattainable and Prime Gun franchises.
When requested a couple of attainable collaboration between Pitt and Cruise (they’ve solely starred collectively as soon as in Interview with the Vampire greater than 30 years in the past), Kosinski playfully teased the likelihood that they might probably meet in a crossover between the actors’ two racing epics:
“Effectively, proper now, it would be Cole Trickle, who was [Cruise’s] Days of Thunder character, we discover out that he and Sonny Hayes have a previous. They have been rivals sooner or later, perhaps crossed paths… I heard about this epic go-kart battle on Interview with the Vampire that Brad and Tom had, and who would not pay to see these two go head-to-head on the monitor?”
Supply: GQ UK