After director Tony Scott died last year, it was widely assumed that work on a Top Gun sequel had stopped, but producer Jerry Bruckheimer said this weekend that the project is still on, contrary to reports.
Scott died last August. There were reports in November that the sequel, which Scott and actor Tom Cruise were working on at the time of the director’s suicide, was likely not going to happen. There were also questions about a planned IMAX 3D re-release of the original 1986 classic, but that did end up happening.
According to Deadline, Bruckheimer said that plans for Top Gun 2 are still moving forward, even with all the other projects Crusie has lined up.
“For 30 years we’ve been trying to make a sequel and we’re not going to stop. We still want to do it with Tom [Cruise] and Paramount are still interested in making it,” Bruckheimer said at the Produced By Conference. “What Tom tells me is that no matter where he goes in the world, people refer to him as Maverick.”
Bruckheimer said that as long as Crusie remains “enthusiastic,” it will get made.
He also spoke positively about The Lone Ranger< his newest Disney production with Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. He’s hopeful that it’s successful enough to start a franchise, but Disney hasn’t started talking about that yet. “This summer everyone is cannibalizing the audience,” he noted, referring to the huge amount of blockbusters hitting theaters this summer. “You have to hold your seats, it’s not the number of theaters but the number of seats. [Man Of Steel] is coming out this week and then next week another blockbuster will come out, if there is another blockbuster, and Superman will move to small theaters and someone else will get their seats.”
The Lone Ranger hits theaters on July 3.
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