Tom Cruise seems to be pretty excited over jumping back into the cockpit for Top Gun 2. Can't say I blame him. He's been swept up in the same tidal wave of nostalgia that has washed over director Tony Scott and his brother Ridley. Besides, no matter how many hit films Cruise has had, to most people he will forever just be ace fighter pilot "Maverick" Mitchell.
The question is what does Cruise want the sequel to be? In a recent interview with MTV to hype Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol, Cruise sounds like he doesn't want to change much of anything from the original film...
Cruise: "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.'"
"Tony and I and Jerry [Bruckheimer], we never thought that we would do it again. Then they started to come to us with these ideas of where it is now. I thought, 'Wow, that would be ... what we could do now.'"
That sounds a bit different than what Scott had to say in October of last year, when he said emphatically that he didn't want to do a remake, and was visiting air force bases to see how things were done nowadays. What he discovered was that it was all drones and tech geeks doing the flying nowadays. How they can work that into a script that anybody would want to see is beyond me, but it sounds like a bad recipe for a Stealth spinoff.
Cruise went on to confirm that Christopher McQuarrie(The Way of the Gun) won't have time to write the script as he's busy directing the actor in One Shot. The job has been passed on to X-men: First Class scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz.
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