Is Days of Thunder a true story?

Is Days of Thunder a true story?

Tom Cruise and Robert Duvall characters are (very) loosely based on former driver Tim Richmond and his crew chief Harry Hyde. Richmond was known as an overnight sensation, and Hyde was the veteran crew chief.

Did Tom Cruise write Days of Thunder?

In the first of a series of articles about Robert Towne and his collaborations with Tom Cruise, we examine Days of Thunder, for which he wrote the screenplay, as well as co-writing the story with Tom Cruise.

Will there ever be a Days of Thunder 2?

There will never be another film like Days of Thunder – Hagerty Media.

Is Days of Thunder based on Rick Hendrick?

The character was largely based on Dale Earnhardt, and Cruise’s Cole Trickle was a sketch of Tim Richmond. Randy Quaid was a slicker version of the team owner Rick Hendrick, and Robert Duvall’s crew chief Hogge was, as Hendrick said, “a better Harry Hyde than Harry Hyde ever was. That just blew me away.”