Paramount has confirmed that a Top Gun sequel has started production.
Cruise is too old to be flying fighters. Heck, he’s probably too old to be anything but an Admiral in the modern Navy. And there ain’t no way Maverick ever became an admiral.
Though lets face it, the fucker is ageless.
Someone who was an 0-3 in 1986, would certainly be at least a 3 star nowadays…right?
I could see Maverick as an O-5/O-6 just given his own carrier command.
I thought Tony Scott’s suicide really made this movie unlikely. I guess they found a way.
I bet the plot will follow every cliché in the book… a retired Maverick is forced into one last mission and whatnot. The plot for Hot Shots 2, basically.
I refuse to watch a TOP GUN movie without Anthony Edwards. Unless they want to jedi ghost his butt in there, I’ll pass.
I’d expect something similar. Maverick may still fly, but his main duty is commanding a squadron or wing.
It would be interesting to see Maverick dealing with today’s hot shot pilots.
I’d guess that Cruise is going to be an instructor, and that there’s going to be a young hotshot who has something to prove involving drones.
I’m also guessing the young hotshot in question will be chesty.
They need to cast David James Elliott in this sequel. He looks so much like a fighter pilot. He was perfect in JAG.
Make him Maverick’s best friend.
James may need to hit the gym and drop 25 lbs. But otherwise he hasn’t changed much since Jag.
Gurantee the plot will be old school fighter jocks vs new age drone pilots vying to see who are the superior air combatants. Expect most of the movie will be friendly adversarial dogfights where human pilots fight drone planes except for the final battle set in an actual war.
I want to see a fat iceman. “You’re just like my blood pressure. Dangerous”
If this sequel does not involve Maverick flying a plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong, I’m going to be exceptionally disappointed.
Disappointed to hear the jet’s going to be a Super Hornet and not F-35C.
Bit old for that, surely.
Wonder if they’ll let Cruise do his own stunts in the jets. 
I mean he does have a pilots licence and fighter time
(Tom Cruise Goes Top Gun With New P-51 Mustang).
I’ve been waiting 30 years to see what Penny Benjamin looks like. But now, I don’t think I’d want to know. Do they still buzz towers today, or has that become passé?
There is a limit as to how far special effects can go…
Don’t make the mistake I just did and look up a current picture of Kelly McGillis.
I’m fine with it. I just really hope they don’t do some stupid justification like they’ve done in other films (“only old guys know how to do X!”).
I feel the need, the need for Depends!