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Cruise has started filming ‘Top Gun 2’
The long-anticipated sequel to Tom Cruise’s 1980s fighter-pilot movie “Top Gun” has started filming.
Star Cruise, 55, posted an image across his social media Thursday showing himself in a full-body shot as his character, Lt. Pete Mitchell, in a Navy flight uniform and holding a red-white-and-blue crash helmet with the nickname “Maverick” emblazoned on it. He looks away from the camera in early-morning light and toward a fighter jet in the background. Superimposed is graphical text reading in capital letters, “Feel the need” — a reference to a catchphrase from the movie.
Variety said the sequel had begun shooting in the United States.
A year ago almost to the day, Cruise confirmed a sequel was in active development. “It’s true . ... Yeah, it’s true,” Cruise said on the Australian morning show “Sunrise” when asked about persistent rumors. “You know what, we’re — I’m going to start filming it probably in the next year . ... It is definitely happening.”
The 1986 action-drama “Top Gun” centers on Cruise’s cocky F-14 Tomcat pilot and his romance with Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood (Kelly McGillis), his astrophysics instructor at the Navy’s elite Fighter Weapons School. Directed by Tony Scott and also starring Anthony Edwards and Val Kilmer, it earned four Oscar nominations, winning for its song “Take My Breath Away.”