Tony worked with Tom in the first Top Gun movie as the director and the film propelled Tom to fame after playing fighter pilot Maverick. Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer also stared alongside Tom Cruise in the film which was produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and nominated for four Oscars, winning the best song Academy Award for "Take My Breath Away".
Cruise said: "I said to Tony, I want to make another movie with him. He and I haven't made a film since Days Of Thunder".
It was announced last year that there were plans for a follow-up to the hit 1986 film, but it was not known if and how much the star would be involved. It had been rumoured that Tom's character Maverick would return in the sequel as an instructor for a new class of Top Gun recruits. Tom when asked about his role in the new film said "I don't know - we're working on it".
Tom has also said "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" adding "Tony and I and Jerry, we never thought that we would do it again. Then they started to come to us with these ideas and I thought, wow, that would be what we could do now".
Will the sequel be as good as the original Top Gun movie and is Tom too old to carry off the Maverick role? Who knows, we will just have to wait and see. Fingers crossed it's as good as the first one.
Article by Michelle.
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