“It’s definitely happening,” confirmed Tom Cruise on an Australian morning show, Sunrise, causing the excited female host to almost pass out. As the flabbergasted interviewer struggled to grapple with the enormity of returning to Top Gun’s high-octane world of aerial dogfights and greased-up men playing volleyball, Cruise repeatedly assured her that, “It’s true.” He further went on to claim that the sequel could begin filming as early as next year. Below is a clip of the impromptu reveal.
WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE: @TomCruise just confirmed that Top Gun 2 is happening! “I’m gonna start filming it probably in the next year”. #sun7pic.twitter.com/X17xvxz4Q4
— Sunrise (@sunriseon7) May 23, 2017
The 1986 film starred Tom Cruise as a hot-headed Navy pilot, Maverick, attending flight school and stumbling aviator sunglasses-first into love with “Charlie,” a beautiful woman pulling double duty as a Navy instructor and astrophysicist. Cruise starred opposite Val Kilmer’s “Iceman”—Maverick’s primary rival in the film. The movie is stuffed with exciting action and campy dialogue that combines for one of the best cult films of the last 30 years.