According to reports, director Tony Scott of Scott Free, wants to mount "Top Gun 2", starring an older, but wiser Tom Cruise, focusing on the modern day Air Force:
"These computer geeks," said Scott, "these kids play war games in a trailer in Fallon, Nevada and if we ever went to war or were in the Middle East or the Far East or wherever it is, these guys can actually fly drones. They are unmanned aircraft. They operate them and then they party all night."
The first "Top Gun" feature, released in 1986, grossed $353,816,701 worldwide.
Directed by Scott, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures, the screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., inspired by the article "Top Guns" written by Ehud Yonay for "California Magazine".
In the film, co-starring Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt, Cruise plays 'Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell', a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier 'USS Enterprise'. He and his backseater, 'Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw' (Edwards), are given the chance to train at the Navy's 'Fighter Weapons School'.
The film depicts Maverick's progress through training, his romance with a female instructor, and his overcoming a crisis of confidence following a fatal training accident.
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