Maverick's back:Top Gun II ?

[Perdita]

First it was Rocky, then it was Rambo and more recently Indiana Jones, and now Tom Cruise is following the eighties remake craze by filming a Top Gun sequel.

Twenty two years after Maverick sang his way into the heart of his instructor Charlie with 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling', the fighter pilot will take to the skies again.

Movie bosses are keen to resurrect the mega-successful 1986 movie, which launched Tom onto Hollywood's A-list and earned $350million worldwide.

Cruise, 46, is in talks with studio bosses to reprise his role as Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in a long-awaited follow-up.

An insider tells The Sun: 'The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor - and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot.'

The original Top Gun starred Cruise as an cocky aspiring pilot who falls in love with his beautiful instructor, Charlie Blackwood, played by Kelly McGillis.

If Cruise agrees to reprise his role, Top Gun II would be a surefire box office hit.

The actor's film career has been remarkably less successful in recent years after previously dominating the highest box offices receipts since the 1980s.

His last big hit was War Of The Worlds in 2005 - which was released around the same time he started dating his now third wife Katie Holmes.

Mission: Impossible III in 2006 performed below industry expectations, taking less money than the first film in 1996, which was a huge worldwide success.

His last film, Lions For Lambs, which opened last November, failed to make an impact at the box office and was critically mauled.

[Siobhan]

not going to work... Top gun is one of those cult movies, like Ferris Bueller.. can't be done again...

[Chloe O'brien]

:sick: :sick: Oh please NO not more Tom Cruise. Val Kilmer "Iceman" was the star of Top Gun.

[Bryan]

never seen Top Gun...can't be that "mega-successfu" then can it really? :rolleyes:

[Perdita]

never seen Top Gun...can't be that "mega-successfu" then can it really? :rolleyes:

You are probably too young :lol: It was a mega hit at the time.

[di marco]

never seen Top Gun...can't be that "mega-successfu" then can it really? :rolleyes:

iver heard of it, but never seen it. im guessing its about the army or something cos at uni the sports clubs always have topgun socials and they have an army type theme?

[Siobhan]

never seen Top Gun...can't be that "mega-successfu" then can it really? :rolleyes:

it was on Sky last week.. it was HUGE in the 80's .... everyone wanted to be a fighter pilot... Guys loved it for the plane, women for the guys in the plane.. lots and lots of action (Funny I don't like that movie now, but I loved it back then)

[Perdita]

never seen Top Gun...can't be that "mega-successfu" then can it really? :rolleyes:

iver heard of it, but never seen it. im guessing its about the army or something cos at uni the sports clubs always have topgun socials and they have an army type theme?

Top Gun - The aircraft carrier Enterprise is on patrol near the Persian Gulf when radar contact is made with a MiG fighter. The Combat Air Patrol of the Enterprise is vectored to meet the incoming aircraft, and the fighters involved are F-14 Tomcat interceptors, each manned by a pilot and a Radar Intercept Officer. The pilot of the lead ship is Lt. Peter Mitchell, going by the callsign Maverick (Tom Cruise) , a callsign appropriate for his arrogant rule-bending attitude; his RIO is Lt. Nicholas Bradshaw, callsigned Goose (Anthony Edwards). Their wingmate goes by the callsign Couger (John Stockwell) with his RIO callsigned Merlin (Tim Robbins). The two F14s split up and are surprised when a second MiG, shielded from radar by riding within feet of its leader, appears. Couger is outmaneuvered by MiG One while Maverick locks his missile radar on MiG Two, who promptly disengages. MiG One stays on Couger and is only chased off when Maverick flies upside down, closes up on the MiG, and flashes an obscene gesture to the enemy pilot. The MiG disengages and the two Tomcats fly to the Enterprise, but Couger is so rattled he cannot land, forcing Maverick, low on fuel and against orders, to abort his own landing and talk Couger to the deck.

Couger sees the captain of the Enterprise, known as Stinger (James Tolkan), and turns in his wings. This forces Stinger to change his intended disciplinary action against Maverick, for he must send a Tomcat tandem for additional combat training at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School in Miramar, CA, near San Diego, and the Captain is disgusted that Maverick is the only qualified candidate for the assignment.

Maverick, however, is quietly overjoyed as he regards the assignment as an opportunity, and upon arrival begins to build a rivalry with a fellow Tomcat pilot, Lt. Kazansky, callsigned Iceman (Val Kilmer), and his RIO, callsigned Slider (Rick Rossovich). At a bar the night after their first day at the School Maverick notices a pretty young blonde in jeans, and hits on her by following her into the ladies room. It seems not to work until the next day she appears at the School, for she is a DoD instructor on enemy aircraft, known as Charlie (Kelly McGillis). She begins to become smitten with Maverick before the official competition begins.

In his first exercise Maverick takes on the School's resident "enemy" pilot, callsigned Jester (Michael Ironside), and succeeds in outmaneuvering him and "shooting" him down, but in so doing he flies below a set minimum engagement altitude - a hard-deck - and then compounds this faux pax by overflying a flight tower at absurdly low altitude just to show himself off.

Iceman chews out Maverick for his "unsafe" attitude and Maverick refuses to have any of it, even after the School's leader, Commander Michael Metcalf - callsigned Viper (Tom Skerrit) - summons him to his office and threatens to expel him should he continue this way. Metcalf, however, knows Maverick, for Maverick's father flew with him in Vietnam and was shot down when he engaged the enemy in "neutral" airspace.

The contest between Maverick and Iceman continues; in a later exercise Viper and Jester team up against Maverick and fellow F14 pilot Hollywood. Maverick breaks a cardinal rule by abandoning his wingman to go after Viper, and in so doing Hollywood is "shot down" and then the same fate befalls Maverick.

But the worst is yet to come, for Maverick is teamed with Iceman and Maverick, determined to win the School contest, angrilly chews out Iceman for taking too long to attack an enemy craft; Maverick takes the shot, but when the two aircraft get close, the backwash from Iceman's thrusters cripple Maverick's engines and the F14 plunges toward the sea. Goose barely succeeds in yanking open the emergency ejection handles, but when the fighter's canopy pops open, the two pilots eject and Goose crashes into the canopy, killing him.

Maverick is devastated by Goose's death and though an inquiry clears him of wrongdoing his confidence is destroyed. He nonetheless graduates from the class and is reassigned to the Enterprise, where an incident with enemy MiGs leads to a fateful battle involving Iceman as well as Maverick.

[pookie1968uk]

i went to see the original three times at the cinema, loved it! not sure if another one would work but who knows!