Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise are two of the most recognizable faces of Hollywood. Iconic actors whose acting careers took off, more or less at the same time, in the 80s and whose respective trajectories have mirrored each other.
But in spite of their success and star quality, Brad and Tom have only ever appeared in the same movie once – cast together as blood-guzzling vampire chums in Neil Jordan’s 1994 Gothic horror flick, Interview with the Vampire.
There have been attempts to get them to work together again but for various reasons, it just hasn’t happened.
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Pitt-Cruise action feature film project failed to see the light of day
However Pitt and Cruise did come close to starring together in Ford v Ferrari – a proposed movie assigned to director Joseph Kosinski who has has worked with both actors in separate projects.
But it fell apart due to excessively high budget costs. The parts ended up being given to Matt Damon and Christian Bale with James Mangold hopping into the director’s seat.
With Pitt’s latest offering F1: The Movie raking in receipts at the box office and Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning also a box office hit, could there be a glimmer of hope that we could finally see both superstars together on the silver screen?
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise together in the sequel to F1: The Movie?
In an interview with United Arab Emirates-based publication The National News. Pitt says he is hopeful. “Tom and I, for a while there, were on Ford v Ferrari with Joe [Kosinski],” he explained. “This was about 10 years before the guys who actually made it – and made it a great movie”.
The F1: The Movie star added that there was just one drawback: “What it came down to is that we both wanted to drive, and he wanted to play Shelby, and I wanted to play Ken Miles. And when Tom realised that Carroll Shelby would not be driving much in the movie, it didn’t come through. So I’m not sure how that’s going to work [a sequel to F1: The Movie], but we’ll give it a go. I’d love to”.
They’re the greatest of friends off the screen but in front of the camera, like chalk and cheese – or at least they were in their 20s, as Brad confessed to Premiere magazine back in 1995. “Tom and I are… We walk in different directions. He’s North Pole. I’m South. He’s coming at you with a handshake where I may not, y’know?”.
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