Top Gun 2

Sequel is cleared for take-off, says Cruise

Tom Cruise has said a sequel to the 1986 film

Top Gun is “definitely happening”. Cruise was asked on Australian television about rumours of a

Top Gun 2. “It’s true,” he said. “I’m going to start filming it, probably in the next year. It’s happening.” Cruise starred as the young pilot Maverick, left, a top student in a US training camp for fighter pilots who was engaged in a bitter rivalry with a fellow pilot played by Val Kilmer. Paramount Pictures, which made Top Gun, declined to comment.