Chevrolet dealership tycoon Tim Daland recruits him to race for his team in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series, bringing former crew chief and car builder Harry Hogge out of retirement to lead Cole's pit crew (Harry had left NASCAR a year prior to avoid investigation involving the death of driver Buddy Bretherton). Originally setting his sights on the Indianapolis 500, Cole realizes that "to win in Indy I'd need a great car, but stock cars are all the same". Young racer Cole Trickle, from Eagle Rock, California, has years of experience in open-wheel racing, winning championships with the World of Outlaws. The film received mixed reviews, with criticism aimed at its unrealistic special effects, characters, screenplay, acting, dialogue and similarities to Top Gun, but was widely praised for its action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, fast pace, and the performances of Cruise and Kidman. This is the first of three films to star both Cruise and Kidman (the other two being Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut). Jerry Punch, of ESPN, has a cameo appearance, as does co-producer Don Simpson. The film also features appearances by real life NASCAR racers, such as Rusty Wallace, Neil Bonnett, and Harry Gant. The cast includes Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Caroline Williams, and Michael Rooker. "Days of Thunder" has achieved cult-classic status, inspiring current NASCAR driver Kyle Busch to produce his own spoof video, and even motivating coders to reconstruct a long-lost video game based on the movie.Days of Thunder is a 1990 American sports action drama film released by Paramount Pictures, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Tony Scott. For exterior shots, the production team built its own camera car-a 1986 Chevrolet El Camino body mounted on a NASCAR Cup Car chassis that looked like it could have been the ancestor of Chevy's C8 Corvette development mule based on a Holden Commodore Ute.
He even led a few laps.Īctors did some of their own driving, and were even asked to flick on in-car cameras at 120 mph, Cary Elwes, who played Russ Wheeler, said. The first time around, the car didn't make the field, but in a subsequent race, driver Bobby Hamilton did so well that Hendrick decided to strip out the cameras and let Hamilton race for real. Filmmakers planned to enter camera-equipped cars (built and raced by Hendrick Motorsports) in races for additional footage, but that meant qualifying said cars just like any other entrant. Filming took place at several NASCAR races, including the 1990 Daytona 500.
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