They were set to play racing legends Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles — until Cruise realized one of them wouldn’t be doing the driving.

“Well, right now, it’d be Cole Trickle, who was [Cruise’s] ‘Days of Thunder’ character, we find out that he and [Brad Pitt’s] Sonny Hayes have a past. They were rivals at some point, maybe crossed paths,” Kosinski said, adding, ‘Who wouldn’t pay to see those two go head-to-head on the track?”

Following the commercial success of the Brad Pitt-starring F1, Pitt revealed that he and fellow Hollywood star Tom Cruise almost featured in another racing drama. During an interview with The National,

Brad Pitt explained why the latest generation of actors are less 'uptight' than his peers, who were worried about 'selling out' with franchise films.

Brad Pitt has issued a candid warning to rising Hollywood actors, urging them to tread carefully when it comes to diving into superhero or franchise films too early in their careers. During a conversation on the New Heights podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce,

The Fight Club star joked that he prepared for the role by stocking up on “a lot of old man jokes.” Switching gears, Pitt said, “I like watching what the new generations are