Tom Cruise Shares First Look Photo as ‘Top Gun 2’ Begins Production

variety.com ^ | 5/31/2018 | robert mitchell

[rktman]

Tom Cruise has heralded the start of shooting on Paramount’s long-anticipated “Top Gun” sequel. Cruise tweeted an image late Wednesday featuring his character, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, looking at a fighter jet down the tarmac.

The teaser image for “Top Gun: Maverick,” which Cruise also posted on his Instagram page, featured the legend “Feel the need,” a reference to the original film’s legendary quote, “I feel the need – the need for speed,” accompanied by the hashtag #Day1.

[Hyman Roth]

But will it be as gay as the first one. Lots of Gay innuendos in that movie. Even one of the songs on the soundtracks was Playing with the Boys.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Will Kenny Loggins do a new theme song?

Trivia Fact: That theme song was originally offered to Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, who turned it down because the movie "glorified war".

Kenny Loggins has been thanking him for the royalty checks ever since.

[apillar]

Is he going to be flying a Healthnet helicopter with Indiana Jones in it to the hospital with a broken hip?

(Had to get in a reference to another movie franchise with an over-the-hill star...and yes, they ARE making another Indiana Jones movie with a 70 something Harrison Ford. Apparently Hollywood hasn't thought of anything innovative since the mid 1980's...)

[Rummyfan]

1986... thirty-two years on. Maverick made Admiral? Captain at least? And he’s still flying fighters at age.... fifty-five? Sixty? Hard to play the young, cocky, flying-by-the-seat-of-his pants fighter jock thirty two years later...

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

There will be obnoxious...excuse me, "badass" chick fighter pilots. I guarantee it.

I'll pass.

[lee martell]

I’m still waiting for RENO 911 to come back. That show was hilarious! They would need all new casting, of course.

[blackdog]

Maybe Stairmaster can get Cruise up to the cockpit, and the walk-in bath company can do some nude scenes without fear of breaking a hip getting out of the tub. Doodle Bug flip phones, Medi-lert rescue buttons, and end of life care facilities for post crash rehab and skilled nursing care.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I forgot, Iceman can't be in this movie. We learned from SNL that Ice left the Navy and is an airline pilot. Iceman, the later years....

[Rummyfan]

......and yes, they ARE making another Indiana Jones movie with a 70 something Harrison Ford.

Surprising, since the last one wasn't exactly a hit.

[bmwcyle]

ICEMAN now Beerman

[Bob434]

[[and yes, they ARE making another Indiana Jones movie with a 70 something Harrison Ford.]]

Hope he has his inhaler with him when he has to do any running scenes- or should i say shuffling scenes

Good thing about hollywood though is that they can make anyone ‘look tough’- even petrified old actors

[relictele]

Tom Skerritt stayed cool. Michael Ironside also.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Will Kenny Loggins do a new theme song?

These days, the "danger zone" for the geriatric cast is falling and breaking a hip, and "take my breath away" will be about walking up a flight of stairs.

[Autonomous User]

I’ll have what he’s having. Hemlock, is it?

[blackdog]

Reno 911 should have a sequel called “FIB Squad”, with Frank Dremmund leading a cast of DC misfits too busy investigating each other than to serve the country.

[VA_Gentleman]

What are you talking about? Are you telling fighter pilots don’t oil themselves and flex at each other while playing volleyball or hang out in saunas together?

[rktman]

Hmmm. So, will harrison shave is chest again to protest the de-forestation in the amazon?

[relictele]

But a Robin Hood film glorifying theft was OK with Bryan ;)

[circlecity]

I bet this will be an even better sequel than Caddyshack 2!

[VA_Gentleman]

You can’t replace Officer Dangle. That show was great.