Top Gun 2 Lawsuit Explained: Why Paramount Is Being Sued & What It Means
Among the triumphs of Top Gun 2’s record-breaking box office performance, Paramount Pictures has been hit with a massive copyright infringement lawsuit for the sequel. Top Gun: Maverick has achieved unprecedented success in terms of its box office draw and glowing reviews, with the sequel soaring past the success of the original. With a fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 97% and a box office gross of over $552 million, Top Gun: Maverick is on track to create a beloved legacy in its own right.
Premiering 36 years after the 1986 original, Top Gun: Maverick brings back Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, who is now tasked with training a new generation of Top Gun recruits for a high-stakes mission. Top Gun 2 manages to outshine the original in its modern approach to the characters, primarily in terms of the emotional crux between Maverick and Rooster, the son of his late best friend and co-pilot, Goose. Addressing his grief, mortality, and personal sacrifices, Top Gun 2 has an incredibly poignant payoff for Maverick through his relationships with Miles Teller’s Rooster, Val Kilmer’s Iceman, and Jennifer Connelly’s Penny.
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However, the celebrations for Top Gun 2’s unexpected success didn’t last long, as the heirs to the author whose story inspired 1986’s Top Gun are now suing Paramount in a game-changing IP lawsuit. In 1983, author Ehud Yonay wrote an article for California Magazine titled “Top Guns,” with the documented stories being licensed by Paramount Pictures quickly thereafter. Now, after nearly four decades, the story’s cult status, and an incredible sequel performance, Paramount could lose big on one of the studio’s greatest assets.
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