Posted on 03/02/2012 3:20:09 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
Maverick is becoming an F-35 test pilot.
It's true.
Tom Burbage, the Lockheed Martin F-35 programme manager, showed up at a National Aeronautics Association luncheon today and dropped a bombshell of a Hollywood scoop. Sure, there was talk about schedules and budgets, partners and politics, software blocks and carrier hooks. But we'll get to that later.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
“What I’m about to tell you is classified. It could end my career.”
After reading the synopsis in the full article it sounds more like a spoof.
They can skip the lesbian girl friend also.
Goose is dead.
Ugh, please let this be a hoax. I thought the first Top Gun was a lousy movie, and I don’t foresee the second being any better if Cruise stars and/or Tony Scott directs again.
BTW, interestingly or not, Cruise’s part was first offered to Matthew Modine (perhaps best known as Joker from Full Metal Jacket. Or, if you’re a former 80’s kid like me, Louden Swain in Visionquest). Modine had an issue with the “Cold War politics” of the film, and refused the part.
"Maverick is a test pilot struggling to keep the flight test programme on schedule, even though his better judgment is sometimes compromised by a lifelong, paralyzing fear of vertical landings. Maverick almost throws in the towel after his favourite knee board/test card holder is destroyed in an unfortunate lift fan malfunction. Meanwhile, the programme's enemies, led by the snearing Bill "Iceman" Sweetman and Karlo "Slider" Kopp, take advantage of Maverick's absence to nearly bury the programme in a wave of seemingly overwhelming blog attacks. That's when Maverick's love interest -- a Texas congresswoman strategically placed on the AirLand subcommittee -- intervenes. She gives Maverick her father's last knee board (er, her father was also a test pilot ... just go with it) and literally pushes him back into the cockpit. Maverick straps on the knee board, takes the Block 3 software build out for a spin, hits every test point and -- for the finale -- lands vertically right on top of Aviation Week's building in downtown Washington DC. And that's when Kenny Loggins starts singing."
"Top Gun 2?! God help us!"
I wonder if they’ll roll Val Kilmer out again as “Iceman”? Of course, the way he looks now-a-days, maybe he’ll change his call sign to “Doughboy”.
I watched “Top Gun” in a big old-fashioned theater in Buenos Aires. I thought the opening sequence on the deck of the carrier was powerful. So powerful, in fact, that if there had been a Navy recruiter’s table in the lobby, this old zoomie would’ve enlisted right then and there. I was also hoping that my then 18-year old son would have been motivated to join up too. He didn’t.
That said, Top Gun is great aircraft porn.
You can likely blame the infamous volleyball scene for that.
I hear they're going to update that scene in the sequel by having all the pilots do some CrossFit in skin-tight unitards.
well, now maybe they can do the volleyball scene with sweaty wimin pilots!
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