Top Gun sequel is confirmed!

[Romulan_spy]

Tom Cruise confirmed that Top Gun sequel is in the works:
http://www.today.com/popculture/top-gun-2-tom-cruise-confirms-sequel-will-start-filming-t111919

I am excited. Top Gun was a very cool movie. I wonder if they will keep it old school with F-15s or use modern stealth fighters like the F-22 or F-35? I hope the movie tries to re-capture some of the charm of the original. Please don't just do an over the top Hollywood action movie with jets that is Top Gun in Name Only. The original was more than cool dog fights. It had great music, fun characters and memorable lines and moments.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I saw Top Gun in 70mm on the big screen with big sound and it was fantastic! Really quite an experience. Didn't give a shit about anything else, like, you know, plot.

Top Gun 2 is precisely the sort of movie that I'd go to the theater to see just for the experience of seeing it that way.

 

[J.T.B.]

I wonder if they will keep it old school with F-15s or use modern stealth fighters like the F-22 or F-35?

That's two Air Force fighters, there, so HELL NO!

 

[ConRefit79]

Probably would use F-18s. F-15 & F-22 are Airforce. Not sure about F-35's. But I don't think they are in regular use yet, like the F-14 was in 1986.

 

[J.T.B.]

Not sure about F-35's. But I don't think they are in regular use yet, like the F-14 was in 1986.

Not for the Navy. They have a few for training at Lemoore, but they won't hit carrier squadrons till early '19 (they said knocking wood with crossed fingers).

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Maybe they'll use the F-35 for training. They can turn the film into an add campaign for it like Die Hard 4.

 

[J.T.B.]

^ There you go, the hotshot trainees fly their F-35s to the carrier in the middle of the night because they are the only ones who can save the day. Which they then do.

I know some people love it but I really can't stand Top Gun and have never rewatched it in 30 years. The aerial photography was nice and it was fun to see the big Tomcats doing their thing, but for most of the movie I think my eyes achieved a roll rate of 360 deg/sec.

 

[Forbin]

Yeah, since they used F-14s in the original, odds are they won't use F-15s in the sequel.
The Navy is pretty much an all F-18 force now (F-14s are retired), and they're nowhere near as photogenic as the Tomcats were.

 

[publiusr]

Maybe they'll use the F-35 for training. They can turn the film into an add campaign for it like Die Hard 4.

God I hope not. How I wish this were a thing:
https://tacairnet.com/2017/03/31/navy-to-explore-resurrecting-the-f-14-tomcat-to-replace-the-f-35/

Here's hoping they blend in the cast from Iron Eagle and even show Clint Eastwoods MiG from Firefox and some planes from Stealth in the background.

Maybe we can see this: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/f22/f22-natf.jpg

 

[Mr. Adventure]

"That drone's flying upside down!"

Actually, I just stumbled on this:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/polit...ets-intercept0200AMVODtopLink&linkId=37769912
Maybe for that Chinese box office Maverick can train a new hot shot Chinese pilot.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"That drone's flying upside down!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I guess I could see Maverick as an instructor at the academy. Like the characters played by Tom Skerritt and Michael Ironside in the original.

 

[Marc]

Gather one challenge is going to be who's gonna be the enemy? The Soviet Union is gone, China is too big a movie market to risk pissing them off.

So North Korea?

Though their airforce is very outdated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Army_Air_Force#Fighters

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Gather one challenge is going to be who's gonna be the enemy?

Daesh? Al-Qaeda?

 

[J.T.B.]

I guess I could see Maverick as an instructor at the academy. Like the characters played by Tom Skerritt and Michael Ironside in the original.

IIRC they were commanders, 15-20 years service. Maverick going on 35 years would either have gone on to bigger things or (more likely) be a civilian.

Gather one challenge is going to be who's gonna be the enemy?

Who was the enemy in the original? Some fictional country that flew fictional MiGs.

Daesh? Al-Qaeda?

Maybe if base security had a Top Gun school!

 

[1001001]

Gather one challenge is going to be who's gonna be the enemy?

Arthritis? Dementia? Sciatica?



The volleyball scene will look a lot different.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It would be pretty funny if Maverick actually is flying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong.

 

[publiusr]

Please. please. Isn't it obvious?

He's a pilot for United.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Release date and director announced:

http://deadline.com/2017/06/top-gun...sinski-jerry-bruckheimer-paramount-1202123050

Paramount Pictures has set July 12, 2019, as the release date for Top Gun 2, the long-gestating sequel to the 1986 hit. Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has been set to helm the film, re-teaming him with Tom Cruise, whom he directed in the sci-fi pic Oblivion. Cruise reprises his role as Maverick, now a flight instructor teaching the young macho pilots how to do it. Jerry Bruckheimer is reprising as producer. The script is by Peter Craig and Justin Marks, along with Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I'm curious as to how they're going to skirt around Cruise's age problem this time. I mean sure, he may still be able to carry off a 40-something look fairly convincingly, but it'll have been 35 years... There are *no* US fighter pilots who've flown for 35 years, and most retire from active service before they're even 35 years old!

Relevant discussion topic here: http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1024767

As for bad guys, instead of not-russians flying not-MiGs (they were aggressor F-5s), I would *love* for them to instead be fighting not-Iran, who would be flying F-14s in a serious twist of irony. The US sold Iran a bunch of Tomcats prior to their revolution, and by all accounts at least a few of them are in working order (even if the American maintenance contractors were told to sabotage what they could on the way out of the country).

It would be a legitimate plot point to bring back Maverick, who flew the F-14 in the fist film, to train / lead the next generation of fighter pilots who have no practical experience in or against exactly that plane!

Mark