TOP GUN 2 in development; Tom Cruise may Return for a Small Role
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They could do a postmodern version with Micheal Cera and Jonah Hill flying Predator drones out of Nevada.
I know, so I severely doubt they'll use F-14s. I think they'll use F-18s instead.
But I'm thinking they'll use CGI if they want to have lots of F-22s, F-35s, or any other of today's aircraft from around the world in large numbers.
I think Top Gun has a more idealized setting than a 100% realistic one--it's still a big-budget Hollywood adventure movie, after all--so they probably can depict situations that are quite different from the real world where the current generation of fighters might actually see little to no combat action otherwise...
Actually, that could be a significant theme of the movie, in addition to the "old coot coming back to teach the young guns" thing. For better or worse, most mlitary analysts are thinking that almost all of the future flying and fighting done in the air will be done solely by UCAVS. Right now, even Boeing's trying to pitch ideas for the next, next generation of carrier-based combat aircraft, which would be provisioned for pilot and drone configurations, though no one serious expects the manned version to be something the Navy would want.
We're basically being faced with the loss of the romantic aspirations of anyone who saw Top Gun, Tora! Tora! Tora! or (God forbid) Pearl Harbor, simply because thirty years from now there will be NO fighter planes around that anyone could fly. That could be a great theme to explore with the military trading real dogfighting skill for sim gamer experience, based around using the real-life F-18s and F-35s which are billed as the last manned fighters in the USN.
Throw in some awesome dogfighting combat action, and this could actually be fun. You know, like that "Stealth" movie, but good.
Mark
PS - Travolta has a older Boeing 707, not a 747. Even with his paychecks, a 747 would be waaaay too expensive to fly for fun!
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/06/exploring-john.html
We're basically being faced with the loss of the romantic aspirations of anyone who saw Top Gun, Tora! Tora! Tora! or (God forbid) Pearl Harbor, simply because thirty years from now there will be NO fighter planes around that anyone could fly. That could be a great theme to explore with the military trading real dogfighting skill for sim gamer experience, based around using the real-life F-18s and F-35s which are billed as the last manned fighters in the USN.
Throw in some awesome dogfighting combat action, and this could actually be fun. You know, like that "Stealth" movie, but good.
Mark
PS - Travolta has a older Boeing 707, not a 747. Even with his paychecks, a 747 would be waaaay too expensive to fly for fun!
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/06/exploring-john.html
Actually, that could be a significant theme of the movie, in addition to the "old coot coming back to teach the young guns" thing. For better or worse, most mlitary analysts are thinking that almost all of the future flying and fighting done in the air will be done solely by UCAVS. Right now, even Boeing's trying to pitch ideas for the next, next generation of carrier-based combat aircraft, which would be provisioned for pilot and drone configurations, though no one serious expects the manned version to be something the Navy would want.
We're basically being faced with the loss of the romantic aspirations of anyone who saw Top Gun, Tora! Tora! Tora! or (God forbid) Pearl Harbor, simply because thirty years from now there will be NO fighter planes around that anyone could fly. That could be a great theme to explore with the military trading real dogfighting skill for sim gamer experience, based around using the real-life F-18s and F-35s which are billed as the last manned fighters in the USN.
Throw in some awesome dogfighting combat action, and this could actually be fun. You know, like that "Stealth" movie, but good.
Mark
PS - Travolta has a older Boeing 707, not a 747. Even with his paychecks, a 747 would be waaaay too expensive to fly for fun!
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2008/06/exploring-john.html
From what I've read the Navy is accepting the fact that the F-35 will be the last manned carrier fighter plane.
No way. He'd never agree to do something like that. Edwards probably wants to forget he ever did this film in the first place.
I'd sooner believe Robert Beltran would agree to do a Voyager film...
The guys on the flight deck didn't know that. Hey, that was Strickland? Sweet!^ Nah, Admiral Strickland* told Mav that the other side hushed it up. No harm, no foul.
Nice.
Also from the AV Club...
I heard the legend of the subtext before seeing the movie, so I was looking for it... and couldn't find it, in large part because I'm not so juvenile as to view locker-room male bonding as inherently gay. If they'd grabbed each others' asses like NFL players do, that'd be one thing, but...
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
How do you know what Kelly McGillis looks like these days? For all you know, she's still sexy.
Would they still even be in the Navy at this time? More importantly, would both actors even consider coming back to these roles (Robbins especially)?
It could (and should) be a PMC based on Blackwater, like Artemis Global Security; there's no way Neo-Nazis or US Militia m embers would be getting aircraft to do anything.
Provided Michael Cera wants to act in a movie like Top Gun; he hasn't shown any inclination before.
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He couldn't resist this premise, man, I'm telling you its genius.
Googled up this pic from last year.
She's aged reasonably well, all told, but still sexy? Well, put it this way, she's no Helen Mirren, that's for sure.
They can have Maverick as the last Naval Aviator with a kill and maybe Scott Glenn playing the last ace being released from prison argueing the same thing was said in the 50s and sparked the creation of Top Gun in the first place.
At the rate that development program progresses it would be safer to set the story somewhere in the 2030's at the earliest.
The F-14 is still in use by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Air Force.
There's your movie right there, it writes it's self.
The sad thing about this is that most of the remaining Tomcats have to be destroyed in order to prevent them from being used as black market spare parts for Iran. An ungrateful end for one of the most beautiful aircraft designs of the 20th century.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
And they get shot down by the USAF's F-22's very quickly, with the movie becoming controversial due to it's use of Iran as an antagonist.
It really, really does, and it could be genuinely awesome if done right.
Iran can't fly most of their F-14s. They don't have the spare parts to keep them operational. They have at most, a single squadron active, but they would be no match for a fifth generation fighter, let alone the vast armada of fourth generation fighters still out there. They would be more likely to resist NATO with a Soviet or Chinese design.