Top Gun 2 Filmmakers Remember Original Movie Director Tony Scott
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie are celebrating director Tony Scott as Top Gun: Maverick continues to dominate the box office. The late filmmaker helmed the original Top Gun movie and was set to return for the sequel in the early stages of development with Bruckheimer and stars Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. Plans would change when Scott committed suicide in 2012, putting development on hold for a few years before starting back up with Joseph Kosinski, who previously worked with Cruise on Oblivion, set to direct and Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer attached to write, while Mission: Impossible vet McQuarrie would later join on to write an additional script.
Picking up in the present day, Top Gun: Maverick finds Cruise's titular character nearing a forced retirement and being given one last chance to return to the eponymous Naval instructor program to train a group of young fighter pilots for a dangerous new mission. Alongside Cruise and Kilmer, the cast for the sequel includes Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis and Danny Ramirez. Top Gun: Maverick has scored rave reviews from critics and audiences alike and has already become a box office hit, beating out Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as the highest-grossing Memorial Day opening weekend.
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In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie shared their thoughts on making Top Gun: Maverick without original movie director Tony Scott. The two praise the late filmmaker for helping set up the franchise to reach the heights it's now achieved as well as praising
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