"Top Gun" sequel in the works: Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise arrives for the "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival on Dec. 7, 2011.

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(CBS) Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell may be back flying planes. Tom Cruise says that a "Top Gun" sequel is in the works.

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"We're working on it," Cruise told MTV News about a follow-up to the hit 1986 film. "I hope we can figure this out to do it again."

Cruise said he's talking with director Tony Scott about a plot.

"If we can find a story that we all want to do, we all want to make a film that is in the same kind of tone as the other one and shoot it in the same way as we shot 'Top Gun,'" he said.

"Top Gun," which starred Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards and Meg Ryan, was a success at the box office. It also scored four Oscar nominations, winning best original song for "Take My Breath Away."

Cruise broke the "Top Gun 2" news while in Dubai plugging another film franchise, the latest "Mission Impossible" installment, "Ghost Protocol."

Tell us: Would you be interested in seeing "Top Gun 2"?

[Pblackman2]

Not another sequel! The original was a terrible movie, so why remake it?

[aerozg]

The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.
Noe sequel will ever top the orginal.

[f16fitness]

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[The-FInal-Word]

I agree because it goes hand in hand with my Big Mac. (www.McDonalds.com)Im Lovin it

[wlhoppers]

The plot: Maverick's wife is oppressed and no longer adores her controlling husband. But she dotes on their only daughter, turning the child into the princess she herself always wanted to be. The little girl is spoiled rotten, dresses like she came out of Vogue magazine and doesn't experience the joys of childhood. Maverick is oblivious to it all, still basking in the days of yesteryear, when he was somebody.
When he finds out his wife is gay, he takes to the skies, in search of his soul, lands in Tibet and has a long chat with Richard Gere. He comes back, finds his wife left him, his kid is on drugs and he has to get a real job.

[koko98-2009]

Maverick busts Duke Cunningham(the founder of top gun) out of prison and they go in search of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.

But seriously how can it be top gun without Goose. Poor Goose.

[sandog1960]

While he's at it, why not a sequel to Risky Business?? Let it go, Tom.

[wlhoppers]

How about a sequel to Far and Away? I haven't had a good nap in a long time.

[ElSegundo]

TOPGUN was a joke to many within naval aviation. Yes, the aerial sequences were great -- thanks to actual TOPGUN instructors -- and supposedly there was a spike in recruitment following the movie's release but its depiction of naval aviation was cartoonish.

Understand the movie was not meant to be a documentary but it could have been more on target; afterall, in and of itself is exciting.

After TOPGUN's release I recall a slogan making the rounds of the ready rooms -- "Attack types make history but Fighter types make bad movies". This held true until the movie, FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, which resulted in the slogan, "Fighter types make bad movies but Attack types make really bad movies".

Anyway, unless he's portrayed as a flag officer in the sequel, the Maverick character would be retired and long out of the cockpit by 2012. Keep him that way.

[macintrance]

It's entertainment, not a documentary. Get over it or stick with the History channel. I'm a scientist and if I were to analyze every science fiction film that i see, i would stop watching them. Having said that, I do appreciate accuracy.

[debbie1120]

You sound like someone who would watch something like Halloween or Friday the 13th and insist that they cannot still be alive after the killers have been shot and stabbed several times. It's entertainment. I bet you analyzed Twister as well.

[Social_Adjudicator]

Bring it on! But Tom, who you pick as a female co-star will be crucial towards it's success.

[wlhoppers]

They could always have Kelly McGillis's character announce she's gay, breaking up her marriage to Maverick, which sends him into the skies again. He can seek knowledge from the ghost of Goose, who's transformed into a Yoda-like character, full of wisdom and wrinkles.
Or they can be smart and not make a sequel

[InnerView]

They've got to at least bring in Val right?

I'm still waiting for the final Mad Max with Mel.

[rwsmith29456]

Tom Cruise or no, TG was a great movie. I wonder why it has taken so long for this. I'd definitely be interested in seeing it IF they can keep the quality of the shooting and script equal (if not better) than before. I'm not interested in seeing just any sequel as most of them are awful.