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  • Tom Cruise Wants Real Jets for Top Gun Sequel

    Tom Cruise is just now launching the latest installment of Mission: Impossible. But he is already talking about a Top Gun sequel.

    The idea of the sequel was in the works between original director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer until Scott’s death in 2012. Since then, it sat on a shelf. Now talk of getting Maverick back into a jet has kicked into gear.

    “Justin Marks is writing the screenplay right now,” Top Gun sequel producer David Ellison 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. But like all things, it all comes down to the script.”

    “I think this is a movie that should be in 3D and in Imax, and again something that you can shoot practically. As everyone knows with Tom, he is 100% going to want to be in those airplanes, shooting it practically.”

    Tom Cruise concurs. He would have to be in a real jet for a Top Gun sequel.

    “It would be fun. I would like to get back into those jets,” Cruise said recently. “It would have to be practical. I don’t want any CGI jets. I want to shoot it like how we shot the first one.”

    Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison have both confirmed that the Top Gun sequel script would be about drones and would have Tom Cruise.

    “The concept is, basically, are the pilots obsolete because of drones. Cruise is going to show them that they’re not obsolete. They’re here to stay,” Bruckheimer said of the Top Gun sequel plot.

    “When you look at the world of dogfighting, Ellison added, “what’s interesting about it is that it’s not a world that exists to the same degree when the original movie came out. This world has not been explored. 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. So 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.”

    Before his death, Tony Scott spoke of that too, saying, “It’s a whole different world now. These computer geeks – 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.”

  • “Top Gun” Sequel Probably Won’t Happen Now

    “Top Gun” Sequel Probably Won’t Happen Now

    When news of a sequel to the ’80s hit “Top Gun” first made the rounds on the web, it was greeted with a mostly enthusiastic crowd; despite the fact that remaking/mining classic films for new box office gold has grown a bit old, many can’t deny the nostalgic love they have for certain things.

    With “The Town” co-writer Peter Craig tapped to do the script and action junkie Tony Scott on board to direct, it seemed like things were falling nicely into place. However, with Scott’s tragic suicide back in August, those involved with the project are looking for a way to release the film that won’t be disrespectful to the director or his family.

    If things don’t pan out for the sequel, the studio always has the 3-D version of the first film–which was made to be released around the same time in order to drum up excitement–and it’s possible they may just leave it at that.

  • Tony Scott Dies: Director Committed Suicide

    Tony Scott, brother of fellow director Ridley Scott and the man responsible for such films as “True Romance”, “Days Of Thunder”, and “Top Gun”, is dead at age 68 after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. His body was pulled from the water below after several people called 911 to report a man having jumped, and investigators later found a note in his car detailing who to contact. A suicide note was discovered at his office.

    Scott was a man of action, keeping a frantic pace in real life as well as on the big screen. He was often slammed by critics for replacing story with fast-paced action shots, but that was simply what he lived for. He was a man who loved rock-climbing and fast vehicles, and that affinity for thrill-seeking inspired him when it came time to direct.

    “I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline,” he said. “It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.”

    Scott was often compared to his brother–mostly in the context of second-best–when it came to directing styles. Where Ridley has always been proficient at creating dark, terrifying worlds such as those highlighted in “Alien” and “Prometheus”, Tony veered away from the psychological undercurrent of a story, preferring instead to use a barrage of images and meld them with bigger, louder, faster effects. But while his love for those things may have gotten him into trouble with the critics, his movies were mostly huge successes at the box office and steered him to the top of the Hollywood food chain fairly quickly. He became known for his work with Denzel Washington on films such as “Unstoppable”, “Crimson Tide”, and “Man On Fire”. He was well-known within the Hollywood community which lives behind the camera, and his death has been mourned by many this morning as news travels. Ron Howard, Jon Favereau, and Simon Pegg have all offered their condolences to his family on social media sites.

    Tony Scott is survived by his wife, Donna, and their twin sons.