There’s going to be a ‘Top Gun 2’ — with drones
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Get out your favorite beach volleyball and some tanning oil, because there's definitely going to be a sequel to the 1980s classic "Top Gun" — with drones.
At a press junket for "Terminator: Genisys" in Berlin, Germany last week, Skydance CEO David Ellison commented on the status of the film and what role Tom Cruise would have, according to Collider.
"Justin Marks is writing the screenplay right now," Ellison reportedly said. "He has a phenomenal take to really update that world for what fighter pilots in the Navy has 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. It is I don't think what people are going to expect, and we are very, very hopeful that we get to make the movie very soon."
With his comment about "Maverick playing Maverick," Ellison confirmed that Cruise would reprise his original role and have a larger part in the next film. He also commented on a plot line about what the Air Force and Navy are facing right now: the last days of manned flight.
"It is very much a world we live in today where it's drone technology and fifth generation fighters are really what the United States Navy is calling the last man-made fighter that we're actually going to produce," he said, "so it's really exploring the end of an era of dogfighting and fighter pilots and what that culture is today are all fun things that we're gonna get to dive into in this movie."