20 Upcoming Movie Sequels You Had NO IDEA About

20. Days of Thunder 2

Tom Cruise is one of the few remaining bankable A-listers of his era, and with Top Gun: Maverick turning out such a phenomenal success back in 2022, it wasn't long before Hollywood started combing back over Cruise's earlier works for more potential legacy sequels.

And in late 2024, it was announced that Cruise was developing a follow-up to his 1990 racing drama Days of Thunder, though at the time Cruise didn't seem fully committed to the idea, only mentioning that he was talking to Paramount about it.

But last June, Cruise's friend and NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon revealed that Cruise told him Days of Thunder 2 was definitely moving forward, and recent reports indicate that the script is currently being written.

Around that time, Top Gun: Maverick and F1 director Joseph Kosinski even teased a possible crossover between Days of Thunder and F1. If nothing else, the box office dynamite of a racing film starring Cruise and Brad Pitt speaks for itself.

And with the general success of big-budget racing films in recent years, there's clear potential for even a more straight-forward Days of Thunder legacy sequel to be a sizable hit, likely outdoing an original that, let's face it, isn't really all that great.