It seems that this commitment to pushing the boundaries of live-action stunts was the main attraction for making a Top Gun sequel for Cruise.
Now, Tom Cruise is planning on revisiting that world, and in an interview for the magazine Empire, Cruise explained why producer Jerry Bruckheimer and he felt the time was ripe for Top Gun 2.
So I said to Jerry, ‘I’ll do it if…’ meaning, I’m not going to do the CGI stuff.”
35 years ago, Top Gun stormed cinemas and introduced that generation of viewers to the world of Maverick, Ice Man and their band of hotshot air force pilots.