Top Gun 2?

[Krakalakachkn]

Things are moving on a sequel to classic 80's blockbuster "Top Gun" reports Vulture with Paramount Pictures having sent offers out to both producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott.

 

Christopher McQuarrie ("The Usual Suspects," "Valkyrie") is being pursued to pen the script and has reportedly found a way to include Tom Cruise's Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell character in a way that's "not too obvious". Cruise has reportedly agreed to take said smaller role.

 

Bruckheimer mentioned he'd been approached about it back in July. Of course the story itself will be tricky as the U.S. Air Force's elite pilots don't focus anywhere near as much on aerial combat anymore.

 

The original grossed $353 million at the worldwide box office.

[Senexx]

It has been on the drawing board for quite some time.

[Lynchgrinch]

Saw the news on Tinternet today myself.

 

It's a bad, bad time for film.....

 

Not realy, but Top Gun 2? C'mon guys Top Gun is cheesey enough without a crappy money making sequal.

[Krakalakachkn]

I absolutely loved Top Gun

[hotpocket2006]

I loved Top Gun too. It makes me bawl my eyes out every single time I watch it. I will probably never ever, ever never watch the sequel to it if it is ever made. I think it would be horrible as there is no story line really to go off of the first one, so it would really only be a spin off and not really a sequel. Plus sequels to these kinds of movies, and really most movies in general, are never that great.

[Lynchgrinch]

awwww c'mon Top Gun is an aweful movie!

 

Yeah, it awesome in the "thats cheesey but awesome" kind of way....but a few watches with mates is enough just to laugh at Tom Cruse. He's such an idiot...

 

Top Gun 2 will be AWEFUL, mark my words...

[Red2111]

dear god don't ruin a great movie!!!

 

i tell you, the DO has taken over Hollywood!!!

 

hey, lay off the Top Gun. it's like the best movie of the 80's i grew up watching!!! it may be cheesy, but it's cheesy like cheeze-wiz. which is wheezy in a good way

[Senexx]

You want to know a real cheesy movie? Shaun of the Dead.

 

Top Gun and 10 000 other movies easily outrank it.

[Krakalakachkn]

BIG NEWS!!

 

It's been almost 25 years since Tony Scott had his first blockbuster with "Top Gun," but the prolific action director is finally returning to the skies. Speaking to HitFix while promoting his new thriller "Unstoppable," Scott confirmed he's on board a sequel, tentatively titled "Top Gun 2," with producer Jerry Bruckheimer at Paramount Pictures.

 

It's still unclear whether Tom Cruise will return to reprise his iconic role as Maverick, but with the Cold War long over, Scott is ready to do his script on what happened to the heroic fighter pilots in the decades since.

 

"I'm not waiting for a script. I'm going to do my homework. I'm going down to I think it's Fallon, Nevada, down near New Mexico and it's a whole different world now," Scott says. "These computer geeks -- these kids play war games in a trailer in Fallon, Nevada and if we ever went to war or were in the Middle East or the Far East or wherever it is, these guys can actually fly drones. They are unmanned aircraft. They operate them and then they party all night."

 

Scott didn't generate the idea for a "Top Gun" sequel, but it sounds like a personal experience piqued his interest about making a film about the modern day Air Force.

 

He recalls, "It was funny, because I was on a plane actually coming back from Vegas, rock climbing in Red Rock, and the guy sitting next to me was all hung over. He must have been in his late 20's and he was one of these kids. He said, 'I partied all night.' And I said, 'What do you do?' 'I work [with unmanned aircraft in] the Air Force.' But they operate these drones like it's war games, but it's for real."

 

According to Scott, "Top Gun 2" will partially examine the end of the era of fighter pilots. Scott notes, "These guys are still test pilots and they manned the drones when they were first running them." But, where is Maverick now? Scott wouldn't reveal that, but also confirmed this wouldn't be his next film, but possibly the one immediately after. So, a "Top Gun" sequel is still a few years away.

 

"This world fascinated me, because it's so different from what it was originally," Scott says. "But, I don't want to do a remake. I don't want to do a reinvention. I want to do a new movie."

 

Scott's next film, "Unstoppable" with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, opens nationwide on Nov. 11.

 

 

Whoa.

[hotpocket2006]

Hmmm sounds interesting. That kind of sounds better than what I was expecting. But I am still way iffy.