34 years later, Tom Cruise hopes to make a Top Gun: Maverick-style sequel to another of his classic action movies

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The film, Days of Thunder, was released in 1990 and is about NASCAR racing.

Cruise played Cole Trickle, a race car driver seeking to establish himself in NASCAR.

Mission: Impossible 8 is also due out soon.

“We had preliminary stuff,” Top Gun producerJerry Bruckheimer recently told usof the Top Gun threequel.

“We’re not there yet.

[There’s] ways to go.”