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.
Oh dear sweet Jesus!
Time really did march on.
Oh! I missed that - thanks.
That CGI crap has ruined most current action films for me it is so fake and over the top. Millenials sure seem to eat it up though.
Exactly. This time Maverick will be black and fly a fighter jet to the moon to fight Serbian Nazis.
wow, they really did a good job at reconstructing the top of his skull.
I would have thought it would look a bit flatter than that.
“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.”
Andy Dick?
Some tumor on his neck that he won't get medical attention for.
Ahhh, I now see he had surgery in February. ..hope he's doing well.
Goose is dead?
They’re going to have to throw a major bone to the LGBT perverts if this sequel is ever to get off the ground (pun intended).
Paulie’s prediction: Maverick is gay, his RIO is transgender, Charlie is a lesbo, Ice Man and Hollywood are hard core homosexual.
Everyone else is straight, but they all show their approval and support for LGBT issues.
Top Gun school will include a required course on sensitivity training and safe sex. Viper will be the instructor. Viper won’t know who he really is; he’s ‘struggling with it’.
I’ll bet I’m pretty close.
Cruise is 52, what’s he going to be? The mechanic?..........
Goose, the drowned broken neck character.
If Tony Scott isn’t here to direct it fuggetaboutit.
Transgendered female lesbian
JESTERS DEAD!
"Hey Goose, you big Stud, Take me to bed or lose me forever"
"Ahhhh Haaa, Show me the way home, Honey"
Big Sky Streak fan. They sold them at the Guide Post around the corner from my family’s cabin. Schwinn Stingray, towel around my neck, a Fanta orange soda and a Guillow’s Sky Streak. mid-70s picture complete.
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