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ExploreOh yeah, Top Gun, the awesome movie from 1986 (yes, you are that old now), which featured Tom Cruise in his breakout role as the bad ass fighter pilot, and Val Kilmer, is set to get a sequel. Everyone says Tom Cruise will be a part of it, though we’re not clear if Val Kilmer or any of the rest of the old cast will be back as well. But isn’t Tom Cruise a bit old to be a fighter pilot now?
Apparently not, since it’s mostly likely that he will want to do all the stunts by himself as usual. But aren’t fighter pilots kind of obsolete today when we have drones instead of pilots? Well, you might think so, but that’s why they got Maverick to prove you wrong. At the premiere of Terminator: Genisys, David Ellison who is the co-producer said:
“Justin Marks is writing the screenplay right now,” Ellison was quoted as saying. “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,” he continued. “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. But like all things, it all comes down to the script, and Justin is writing as we speak.”
“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.”
The other co-producer, Jerry Bruckheimer said last year:
“The concept is, basically, are the pilots obsolete because of drones,” he told HuffPost Live. “Cruise is going to show them that they’re not obsolete. They’re here to stay.”
“Technology has changed obviously since we made the first one,” Bruckheimer told Bloomberg. “So, I think we’re going to take advantage of what the world is like today, you know with the drones really kind of taking over in a lot of our wars…Is the pilot obsolete? No, I don’t think so…we’re going to hopefully highlight both worlds.”
If this actually comes to life, and it looks like it will, it just might be one of the few really good sequels that we see. But for now we’ll have to wait. Though you can get nostalgic with some of these Top Gun t-shirts below.
Top Gun t-shirts
Top Gun t-shirts from Design by Humans:
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Top Gun t-shirts from TeePublic:
All TeePublic t-shirts are priced at $20 and every month they have site-wide sales where their prices drop to just $14 per tee so make sure you check them out often!
Top Gun t-shirts from RedBubble:
