Yeah, I thought it could be him too, but I think Iceman would be the one that has way more impact. Especially since we know Kilmer IS in it, however brief it will undoubtedly be. Either way, I still fully expect cameos from Tom Skeritt and Michael Ironside too. Right? Haha. Though I really did appreciate that gorgeous F-14 at the end of the trailer. Damn.
As much as I usually hesitate to defend the Navy (active duty Air Force guy here ), I can understand why they went Navy in the original seeing how Top Gun has its origins in the Navy fighter pilot program. Hey, at least we have the Iron Eagle movies.
Man, after watching that trailer again, I had to go look for the original score that was called the "Camel Blue" version. It's just the anthem without the guitar on it:
At first I had zero interest in seeing another 30 years delayed sequel, as well as there are no Tomcats, but this trailer has given me a slight glimmer of interest. Mostly because it looks like there will be the bare minimum of CGI. The Tomcat was the greatest fleet defender ever created. Bureaucracy killed an aircraft that should still be kicking ass to this day.
His character was originally supposed get his own entire spin-off movie. It got shelved because Cruise was still doing damage control back then (post Oprah couch jump / throwdown with Matt Lauer about medicine / Scientology / etc etc etc) and they weren't convinced he or that character could fuel a movie of its own. It is - looking as glorious as ever. The F-14 was always my second favorite jet next to the F-15. Tried getting a couple screen grabs of it, but it moves too fast to get a crisp clear one.
These days having him doing a female role would be funnier. But I'd love to see a Les Grossman only movie with the others being cameos, with Grossman dealing with Hollywood fallout like a Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey situation. Doesn't have to be him being accused just trying to deal with the modern PC audience and his old approaches not working and he doesn't know how to deal with it so he keeps doing the same thing and half the time it works and the other it fails badly.
Les Grossman works perfectly in the screen time he had in Tropic Thunder, I think the joke would get burned out pretty quickly in his own movie though.
I am only judging based on what I saw in the trailer, but I feel like there are too many of the same scenes from the first movie: a tragic death and funeral, a scene of Maverick on his motorcycle racing a fighter jet, a classroom setting in an airplane hangar, a bar scene with a crowd singing along, beach sports, etc... I understand they want to play into the nostagia angle but I hope this movie is something new and fresh, not just a recycle of the same old formula.
