Tom Cruise has agreed to reprise his role as Lieutenant Maverick in a sequel to 1986’s Top Gun…
In line with the current mania for anything hailing from the 80s, we’ve just learned that a belated sequel to 1986’s awesomely brash aerial epic Top Gun is set to roll out of a hangar somewhere in Hollywood.
According to sources close to the New York Times blog, Vulture, Tom Cruise is prepared to reprise his role as Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, with original producer/director pairing Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott already signed up to resume their respective positions.
Screenwriting duties will be handled by The Usual Suspects scribe Christopher McQuarrie, who’s just written the script for the forthcoming Wolverine 2.
It’ll be interesting to see exactly what McQuarrie can do with a property so inextricably keyed into the mood of the 80s. As Jerry Bruckheimer himself has admitted, “the aviation community has completely changed since we made the movie a long time ago,” and, indeed, so has the movie industry.
Is the world ready for a reprisal of the original Top Gun’s homoerotic games of beach volleyball and macho aerial dogfights? Of course it is. More news on Top Gun 2 as we get it.
Vulture