when it was first announced. Great film for it's time, but it's a completely different world now. How do you hammer out a story that reflects those changes and is relevant to today? Plus, why would the original director come back for such an obvious money grab? Well, Oliver Stone came back for Wall Street's sequel to some success. Who's to say Tony Scott can't do the same with Top Gun?It was around a week ago that we learned Paramount had made offers to both producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Scott about steaming ahead with the film, but we hadn't heard much about either's actual interest in the job. In an interview with Hitfix, Scott made it abundantly clear that he is interested, and he seems pretty jazzed about it...
Scott: “I don’t want to do a remake. I don’t want to do a reinvention. I want to do a new movie.”
"I’m not waiting for a script. I’m going to do my homework. I’m going down to I think it’s Fallon, Nevada, down near New Mexico and 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."
Initial reports stated that Tom Cruise's "Maverick" character has been worked into screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie's plot, but in what capacity is unknown. Cruise is expected to return as well. You couldn't make a Top Gun without him. It'd be like making a Wall Street movie without Gordon Gekko.
So it sounds like we aren't going to get Stealth 2, as I had joked about last time. This is looking like Scott's attempt to make a flick about aerial combat as it stands today, not 20 years ago or some ridiculous futuristic crap either.
