TOP GUN 2 - release 2012/13

[iRaven]

How about this then...

Fans of Top Gun have been longing for a sequel since quite a long. Well, it seems the wait will soon be over: Paramount is planning indeed to develop a movie sequel to Top Gun. Director Tony Scott, who helmed the first film, has been called back to direct Top Gun 2. Actor Tom Cruise who played the role of Maverick said he'd be interested in showing up for some sort of cameo or to play a supporting role, but not to play the lead role. Scriptwriter Christopher McQuarrie (Usual Suspects, Valkyrie) has been hired to pen the script of Top Gun 2.

Here below a few words from Director Tony Scott about the movie Top Gun 2:


"I'm not waiting for a script by Christopher McQuarrie. I'm going to do my homework. I'm going down to Fallon, Nevada, it's a whole different world now. These computer geeks -- these kids play war games in a trailer in Fallon, Nevada and if we ever went to war or were in the Middle East or the Far East or wherever it is, these guys can actually fly drones. They are unmanned aircraft. They operate them and then they party all night.
[...]
They operate these drones like it's war games, but it's for real. This world fascinated me, because it's so different from what it was originally. But, I don't want to do a remake. I don't want to do a reinvention. I want to do a new movie."
Director Tony Scott

Sounds like Top Gun 2 will involve drone pilots and how the old jet-fighter pilots fit in the new military paradigm. Well, I kind of like this angle. I doubt it will as thrilling and epic as the first film, but Top Gun 2 will still make for a really interesting sequel and will shed light on the latest warfare technologies and how the military use them.

Who'd have thought it, eh?

iRaven

[Unchecked]

Hitting the brakes and flying right by will be somewhat less spectacular.

[TheWizard]

these kids play war games in a trailer in Fallon, Nevada and if we ever went to war or were in the Middle East or the Far East or wherever it is, these guys can actually fly drones. They are unmanned aircraft. They operate them and then they party all night.

Anyone got a Gen App lying around?! :)

[Willard Whyte]

I'm not interested in any sweaty batty-boy sex subtext movie.

One hopes this project won't distract from Scott's Le Mans project. No, it ain't a french batty-boy movie, it's about the important matter of motor racing.

[Grabbers]

Yeah yeah, of course you're not Willard... :ok:

[Willard Whyte]

Hey, I'm from good quality multi-engine stock, not a Norfolk inbred.

[L J R]

I seem to recall sleeping all day and working all night during my time at 39....have things changed?

[diginagain]

I just hope they don't offer Kelly McGillis a cameo role.

[oldpinger]

Script suggestions-

Mav sits around for a week or two whilst the OH&S people do a risk assessment to see if it's safe to flip the bird to a passing MIG...

MIG waxes USN aircraft's butts as it was made in China from plans borrowed from the F22 program...

[Old-Duffer]

Diginagain,

You, Sir, are a cad and a bounder and unless you withdawal your remarks, I shall send my Seconds around to demand satisfaction! No gentleman makes unkind remarks about a lady.

Pistols at dawn, I fancy.

Old-Duffer

[high spirits]

Cruise sits with his new class. In walks Viper.
'Gentlemen, a quick health and safety brief.........

They spend the morning doing some crap computer based'protecting information level 1' course all about how not to leave a secret laptop on the train on the way home. Afternoon is spent trying to figure out the ridiculously complex system of notams, local avoids and sensitive areas.

Cruise goes to the bar. It's shut cos there aren't enough Mess staff and they can only open the Sgts Mess that week. Goes to the Naafi bop. Sings cheesy song to Fat WAAF. Gets filled in by large RockApe. Wakes up next to his kebab from the night before.

Next day is another bone course called 'introduction to DII' that repeats half the guff that was in yesterday's course. Afternoon is spent on JPA trying to figure out which receipt that he has had to keep for 2 years is the correct one to submit to the JPA audit.

Cruise goes blind on paperwork and worthless computer courses and does no flying for 5 months cos they stop the course due to aircraft availability.

Next day, cruise spends three hours planning a trip and making lots of last minute bookings, straps in to the mighty steed. Goes to start the engine. No joy. Throws it back at the engineers...

'Sorry sir, but you didn't put 'engine required' on the Pre flight instruction.'

Cruise hits the PVR button on JPA...

[Jackonicko]

High Spirits: Comedy genius, fella!

[Pontius Navigator]

What about equality and diversity and the need to man (or woman) a float on the Lord Mayor's show?

[DITYIWAHP]

I think Dos Gringos' "Predator Eulogy" says is best.

For the film, I hope for a sombre and moving scene following on from a PIO on landing incident....

[Load Toad]

Will the new movie be as gay as the original?

NzY9a-WmE6o

[Spot 4]

I just hope they don't offer Kelly McGillis a cameo role.

Perhaps it will be set in Africa and she can star as a Lesbohippapottermoosepig.

[oldpinger]

Cruise can't land on the newest carrier because it's helicopters only and also the French won't share!:ok:

[Lima Juliet]

I have UAS/RPAS'd some memorable quotes:

Maverick: Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby.
Air Boss Johnson: That’s a negative Ghost rider, the pattern is full.
Maverick: I'm doing it anyway, as I'm lost link - squawking 7600...


Goose: The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are are still alive because they invested in combat aircraft technology that poses no risk to aircrew.


Stinger: And if you screw up just this much, you’ll be flying a manned cargo plane full of rubber dog sh!t out of Hong Kong!
Maverick: Yes sir!


Merlin: What are you doing? You’re slowing down, you’re slowing down!
Maverick: I’m bringing him in closer, Merlin.
Merlin: You’re gonna do WHAT?
Maverick: I don't have the speed to out run him so I may as well just get it over with..


Jester: That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date – right up to the part where you had a Ku drop out.


Charlie: So, lieutenant, where exactly were you?
Maverick: Well, we...
Goose: Thank you.
Maverick: Started up on his 6, when he pulled from the clouds, and then I moved in above him.
Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?
Maverick: Because my sensor ball is underneath the aircraft - derr!.
Iceman: [coughs whilst saying] Bull****.
Goose: No, it is man. It was a really great move. He couldn't go inverted as the sat link only goes upwards.


Slider: Crashed and burned! Huh, Mav?
Maverick: Hey, Slider.
[sniffs]
Maverick: You stink!
Slider: I know Mav, I've been stuck in that sweaty cabin all day...


Maverick: I feel the need...
Maverick, Goose: ...the need for speed! Oh, bugger the wings have come off!


Maverick: Too close for missles, I'm switching to guns. Oh, rubbish! I don't have any...


Title Card: On March 3, 2011 the United States Air Force established an elite school for the top one percent of its RPA pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best RPA pilots in the world. They succeeded. Today, the Air Force calls it RPA Weapons School. The flyers call it: TOP GUT...


There must be others...:ok:

LJ

[The B Word]

They operate them and then they party all night

Daytime Nevada is nighttime Afghanistan and Nightime Nevada is daytime Afghanistan - they must have taken all those strikes in the bars and casinos then? Come to think of it, what a great idea, maybe create some ground control systems that look like slot machines and they do their bit from the Casino:

http://vegasbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/casino-win-wheel-o-fortune.jpg

This could be the first all-female crew celebrating a HellFire strike on senior Taleban leadership...:E

The B Word

[Wander00]

Is this "Top Gun 2" or "Hot Shots 2" they are making?

[Wrathmonk]

high spirits

You missed a bit:

Mav goes back to his room and logs on to PPRuNe to bemoan how good it was back in the 80's

:E

[Abbey Road]

Is this "Top Gun 2" or "Hot Shots 2" they are making?Nope, it's "Top ****s 7". Features a lot of brown-nosing self-important blunts ..... apparently.

[LowObservable]

If, in the pursuit of balance and diversity, the role of Maverick is played by Halle Berry, let the record show that LO stands ready to substitute for Kelly McGillis.

[Shell Management]

I think the homoerotic subtext is a little bit of an overblown piece of retrospective urban myth.

[diginagain]

Ask your Second to Google-up some recent images of said 'Ms' McGillis.

Then let me know if you still demand satisfaction.

[Out Of Trim]

Apparently, Kelly McGillis has " Lost That Loving Feeling " For blokes anyway!
:}


McGillis came out as a lesbian in April 2009 during an interview with SheWired.com, an LGBT-oriented web site.[13][14] She said that coming to terms with her sexual orientation has been an ongoing process since age 12, and she was long convinced that God was punishing her for being gay.[13][14] In 2010, Kelly McGillis entered into a civil union at a ceremony in Collingswood, New Jersey with Melanie Leis, a Philadelphia based sales executive; she and McGillis met in 2000 when Leis was a bartender at a restaurant in Key West, Florida which McGillis owned with her second husband, Fred Tillman.[

[antisthenes]

I think a Bollywood version would tick all the boxes!

Great Kashmir setting – lots of Talibaddies (even the US audience could work out which side they’re supposed to cheer for)

Beach cricket instead of volleyball – clearly no chance of any Brit exchange pilot playing

No need for subtle homo-erotic subplot – they’ve still got a Jag force

[Ivan Rogov]

Needs a new title...... Top Thumb?

Mavs Dad was on a Phoenix crew in GW2, his aircraft never came back, repeatedly?

The last 20 years of Ops could provide a better subject, fast air, SH or AH for example.

[Old-Duffer]

Good point Ivan, but we've had "Wings of the Apache" Tommy Lee Jones, Nicholas Cage and Sean Young.

As for Diginagain, I know that for Ms McGillis - how can I put this delicately - the years have not been kind to her but it's the principle, old boy, the principle!!

Old Duffer

[LowObservable]

"No need for subtle homo-erotic subplot – they’ve still got a Jag force"

+1

"I think the homoerotic subtext is a little bit of an overblown piece of retrospective urban myth."

-1 for choice of adjectives

By the way, the real-world model for the McGillis character is still staring down fighter pilots in DC, and instilling fiscal realism that has already eliminated 220-some JSFs from the 2011-16 plans. 130 more and she beats Hartmann!

[AR1]

I imagine Cruise's cameo being regular cut's to him writing a blog about how much the whole damn thing is costing, and how the old Harrier force could do it cheaper.

"I think the homoerotic subtext is a little bit of an overblown piece of retrospective urban myth."

And that's what I thought till I watched it again a couple of months back.

[diginagain]

I would suggest that standards trump principles. Especially in this instance. However, I am happy to submit to your demand for satisfaction. You may chose the weapons, if I am permitted to select the venue. Rule 17 of Code Duello would seem to permit this.

[SmilingKnifed]

I think the homoerotic subtext is a little bit of an overblown piece of retrospective urban myth.

And so does every one else at the Blue Oyster Shirtless Dancing Club and Spa :E

At least some good old scenes of in-shower debriefs will cheer the Harrier mates up!

[iRaven]

Old Duffer

You may choose the weapons

Try Harrier GR9s, that would make a lot of people happy! :p

iRaven

[chopper2004]

weapons of choice...wouldn't be anything but AGM-65 :ugh::cool::8

[RAFEngO74to09]

Following on from Leon J's post, here's another suggested RPAS'd scene:

Our two intrepid RPAS operators, having lost track of the time, stayed a bit too long on the Vegas Strip [wearing their "badged up drinking suits" of course]. They are racing each other in their Chevy Corvettes to get back to the RPAS operators' cabin in time for their next Top Gun "combat" sortie. [Gratuitous car chase scene down the Strip - CGI'd casinos in the background].

After passing security at one of the crash gate entrances, they line up next to each other, glance over and say: "I feel the need - for speed !" and with a wheel spinning take off a race down the taxiway ensues.

In the tower, SATCO is in Local pouring coffee which he spills down his front as the two Corvettes race past his window at over 100 mph.

Later, our two intrepid heroes are standing in the corridor outside Viper's office.

Inside, SATCO is ranting: "Two of your snot-nosed jockeys drove past my tower at over 100 mph. I want their butts !"

SATCO storms out of Viper's office and collides with an enlisted man carrying a tray of coffee cups.

SATCO: "Damn it - that's twice ! I want some butts !"

Viper comes to the door and address our heroes: "That just about covers exceeding the speed limit on the taxiway". 'Follow me". [Inside] "Gentlemen - you had a hell of a first day"

[Ivan Rogov]

Mmmmmmmmmm how will Goose buy the farm, DVT after 10 hours in the Lazy boy?

[Wander00]

Top Gun on Film 4 tonight

[Runaway Gun]

Watch out for thumb blisters when you exceed the recommended number of Pause Presses on the Remote, during that volleyball scene ;)

[Grabbers]

Film 4 right now.

Willard, got your Kleenex?

[VinRouge]

YouTube - Quentin Tarantino taking on Top Gun

[Grabbers]

For those of you so inclined, Film 4 is now showing The Crying Game.

[TorqueOfTheDevil]

130 more and she beats Hartmann!

:D

Can we update the helo rescue to show the winchman demanding Mav provides his chip and PIN before being picked up? Or maybe Mav gets hypothermic waiting to be rescued because the nearest SAR flight has gone down to 12 hour ops?

[minigundiplomat]

Will the first 110 minutes involve meaningless pre-employment training consisting mainly of common sense, with the remaining 10 minutes consisting of low grade predator footage and 5 minutes of credits?

And seriously, the title 'Top Gun' is both too elitist and jingoistic. Perhaps 'High Average Peace Keeper' may be more appropriate for today's market segement.