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‘Top Gun 2’: Jerry Bruckheimer Generates Excitement With Tom Cruise Tweet

‘Top Gun 2’: Jerry Bruckheimer Generates Excitement With Tom Cruise Tweet

January 27, 2016 | 03:13PM PT, Alyssa Sage

Jerry Bruckheimer amped up the excitement for the production of “Top Gun 2” Tuesday when he tweeted a photo with Tom Cruise.

“Just got back from a weekend in New Orleans to see my old friend @TomCruise and discuss a little Top Gun 2,” the producer‘s tweet read.

Bruckheimer produced “Top Gun,” the Oscar-winning 1986 action drama that starred Cruise as young Navy pilot Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

Development of “Top Gun 2” was confirmed last year by Skydance CEO David Ellison, who also shared some details about the plot.

“It is very much a world we live in today where it’s drone technology and fifth generation fighters… It’s really exploring the end of an era of dogfighting and fighter pilots and what that culture is today,” said Ellison at a “Terminator Genisys” press junket last June. The exec also hinted that Cruise would be returning to reprise his role as Maverick. “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,” Ellison said.

Val Kilmer, who played Lt. Tom “Iceman” Kazanski in the original, announced on Facebook in November that he was offered a role in the sequel as well, adding, “not often you get to say ‘yes’ without reading the script.”

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by Anonymousreply 31July 18, 2019 8:44 PM

JERRY BRUCKHEIMER ‏@BRUCKHEIMERJB Jan 26

Just got back from a weekend in New Orleans to see my old friend @TomCruise and discuss a little Top Gun 2.

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by Anonymousreply 1January 27, 2016 10:36 PM

Is Jerry Bruckheimer still a Republican?

by Anonymousreply 2January 27, 2016 10:38 PM

Don't tell me Tammy is going to still be a fighter pilot. He's much too old for that.

by Anonymousreply 3January 27, 2016 10:47 PM

Top Gun was from 1986. Maverick and Iceman would almost certainly be retired by now if now outright forced out of the service in one of the several intervening fleet reductions in force.

by Anonymousreply 4January 27, 2016 10:48 PM

Trump tweeted:

[quote]It was the childishly written & taunting PR statement by Fox that made me not do the debate, more so than lightweight reporter, @megynkelly.

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by Anonymousreply 5January 27, 2016 10:49 PM

Trump tweeted:

[quote]I will be interviewed on @oreillyfactor tonight at 8:00 P.M. (Eastern). Enjoy!

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by Anonymousreply 6January 27, 2016 10:50 PM

I think military pilots are done by the time they're 40, if not earlier.

by Anonymousreply 7January 27, 2016 10:50 PM

Whoops.

Meant to post those on the Trump vs. Fox debate thread.

by Anonymousreply 8January 27, 2016 10:50 PM

Besides Tammy cannot wait to see Valerie KIlmer. She is looking awesome.

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by Anonymousreply 9January 27, 2016 10:52 PM

What excitement, even the idiots who loved the original aren't going to care decades later.

by Anonymousreply 10January 27, 2016 10:52 PM

Plus mannish Kelly won't even need no make up to play Tammy's transexual lover.

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by Anonymousreply 11January 27, 2016 10:58 PM

And 30+ years later, I expect some of the original viewers are now deceased.

by Anonymousreply 12January 27, 2016 10:59 PM

Ohhhh, goooooddddd!!!

by Anonymousreply 13January 27, 2016 11:00 PM

Plot: Tom is shot down behind enemy lines and is subjected to 30 yrs of brainwashing by a sadistic, greedy cult before being inserted back into American culture as a photogenic hero. Wait...

by Anonymousreply 14January 28, 2016 10:42 AM

I'm going to assume Val Kilmer is now a drone pilot, seeing as how he's too fat to fit in a fighter cockpit.

by Anonymousreply 15January 28, 2016 10:51 AM

So is Jerry Bruckheimer still a Republican?

That's a turnoff as far as I'm concerned.

by Anonymousreply 16January 28, 2016 10:56 AM

Will Mary still be the young pilot star?

by Anonymousreply 17January 28, 2016 10:58 AM

Does Tom even have fans here ?

by Anonymousreply 18January 28, 2016 11:02 AM

If Tom is actually going to play a fighter pilot in his 50s, this will be an unintentional comedy.

by Anonymousreply 19January 28, 2016 11:04 AM

I knew Kelly McGillis was a lesbian the moment I saw her in Top Gun. Kelly McGillis herself apparently didn't figure it out until many years later.

by Anonymousreply 20January 28, 2016 11:06 AM

Will Tammy wear her high heels to compensate for her tiny stature?

by Anonymousreply 21January 28, 2016 11:23 AM

Doesn't Kelly McGillis identify as bisexual, R20?

by Anonymousreply 22January 28, 2016 11:26 AM

Is this the longest he has gone unmarried ?

by Anonymousreply 23January 28, 2016 11:43 AM

Maybe Cruise finally learned something the last time, R23?

by Anonymousreply 24January 28, 2016 11:52 AM

Recent photo of "Wolfman" Barry Tubb (who also dated Kelly McGillis back in the day).

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by Anonymousreply 25January 28, 2016 12:38 PM

I think the first one should remain untouched, no sequels.

by Anonymousreply 26January 28, 2016 2:04 PM

That's just great. Top Gun: The Old Farts Strike Back.

I wonder if the widow Bride of Frankenstein I mean Meg Ryan will be in this one.

She could play a burn victim.

by Anonymousreply 27January 28, 2016 2:36 PM

Will there be actual gay pilot characters this time?

by Anonymousreply 28January 28, 2016 2:49 PM

[quote]Maverick and Iceman would almost certainly be retired by now if now outright forced out of the service in one of the several intervening fleet reductions in force.

Or discharged under DADT.

by Anonymousreply 29January 28, 2016 3:06 PM

Doesn't Kelly McGillis identify as bisexual, [R20

Yes, Kelly likes both women and girls.

by Anonymousreply 30January 28, 2016 3:23 PM

Trailer. Out sometime next year.

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