Insert your favorite “I feel the need … the need for speed!” pun here.
Jerry Bruckheimer has been trying to make a sequel to the ultra-patriotic 1986 hit Top Gun for nearly 30 years. The long-gestating followup seemed to finally gain some real traction in 2012, when the first film’s star, Tom Cruise, and director, Tony Scott, reportedly toured a naval air station in Nevada while researching the movie.
Plans stalled, though, when Scott killed himself in August of that year. They didn’t really get moving again until the fall of 2014, when Bruckheimer hired screenwriter Justin Marks to pen the sequel’s script.
But now it seems that Top Gun 2 is getting closer than ever to liftoff — and that Cruise just might reprise his star-making role in the film.
