Tom Cruise is once again feeling the need, the need for speed. Twenty-five years after the release of one of his most popular films, “Top Gun,” Cruise is planning a return to the fighter jet cockpit for a sequel. The film would reunite Cruise with original director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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“I said to Tony I want to make another movie with him. He and I haven’t made a film since [1990’s] ‘Days of Thunder,'” Cruise told the network during the Dubai premiere of his latest film, “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.” “Tony and I and Jerry, we never thought that we would do it again. Then they started to come to us with these ideas of where it is now. I thought, ‘Wow, that would be … what we could do now.'”

The original “Top Gun,” about the rivalry at an elite naval school for figher pilots, earned a $354 million worldwide — an astronomical sum at the time — and reportedly sparked a surge in recruitment for the U.S. Navy. Cruise’s turn as reckless pilot Maverick helped the burgeoning star take off into a different stratosphere in Hollywood, leading to starring roles in “The Color of Money,” “Cocktail” and “Rain Man.”

Last year, Scott confirmed he would return for another installment of “Top Gun” but Cruise hadn’t talked about his attachment on the project — until now.

“I hope we can figure this out to go do it again,” Cruise told MTV. “If we can find a story that we all want to do, we all want to make a film that is in the same kind of tone as the other one and shoot it in the same way as we shot ‘Top Gun.'”
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