Posted on 06/30/2015 1:00:12 PM PDT by drewh
f you’re feeling the need for some speed, then you’re in luck: During the Berlin press day for Terminator Genisys last week, Skydance Productions’ David Ellison and Dana Goldberg provided some intel on the status of the sequel to the 1986 fighter-ace blockbuster Top Gun. Among the tidbits: That Top Gun 2 would take place in modern day; that it would involve Maverick, the hotshot, hot-dogging Navy pilot character that helped make Tom Cruise one of the biggest stars in the world; and that it would revolve around the increased use of unmanned drones in military aviation.
“Justin Marks is writing the screenplay right now,” said Ellison (via Collider). “He has a phenomenal take to really update that world for what fighter pilots in the Navy have turned into today. There is an amazing role for Maverick in the movie and there is no Top Gun without Maverick, and it is going to be Maverick playing Maverick.”
“I think this is a movie that should be in 3-D and in IMAX, and again something that you can shoot practically,” Ellison went on. “When you look at the world of dogfighting, what’s interesting about it is that it’s not a world that exists to the same degree when the original movie came out…. It is very much a world we live in today where it’s drone technology…. So it’s really exploring the end of an era of dogfighting and fighter pilots, and what that culture is today.”
This isn’t the first sequel to almost get airbourne: Back in 2010, original Top Gun director Tony Scott was working on a follow-up that also would’ve involved the return of Maverick and, potentially, Cruise. (Scott passed away in 2012.) There’s no word yet on whether Cruise will sign up for this new attempt. So for now, we’ll just have to hold on to that lovin’ feeling a little bit longer.
people get older, women get older. she was great back in the day. btw, she didn’t go all Kirsty Ally or Sally Stuthers so I’m cutting her indefinite slack.
Ed D
He ain’t been looking to good lately. Lost a lot of weight. Aged poorly. Rumors of throat cancer. But looks like it could possibly be something else.........
I feel the need; the need to stay home.
If they can’t get Tom Cruise, NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon can fill in.
Iceman. The later years. Val Kilmer snl
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk75ps_iceman-the-later-years_shortfilms
[flight director]
Icemans here and well... he looks unpredictable, not him personally, but how the F-16 is going to manuver with his fatass in the cockpit. ...First of all his hips will be up agaist the fuel shut off valve and secondly the G’s are going to push his face hard against the canopy like a fifth grader trying to impress his friends...
I watched Top Gun in the early 90’s and yeah she was smoking back then, but alas I agree noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Sad, but LOL!
Oh so sad, she was so hot
people get older, women get older. she was great back in the day. btw, she didn’t go all Kirsty Ally or Sally Stuthers so I’m cutting her indefinite slack
Naw man. You must have missed the earlier post. She didn’t “go all Sally Struthers”.
She went all “Ellen DeGeneres”
If you know what I mean.........
Obviously Mav and Charlie will be split up. We should hi-jack this thread and take odds on who will be the new love interest.
Well, I used to be. ...many years ago.
Goose could pull it off, but... he’s dead.
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