Top Gun fans rejoice! Filming for the long-awaited sequel of the airforce action movie is officially underway.
Taking to social media, lead actor Tom Cruise, shared a picture from the set of the movie sending fans into a frenzy of excitement. The picture showed Cruise in a flight suit staring at a waiting fighter jet with the caption, “Day 1.”
#Day1 pic.twitter.com/7jjPL277Es
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) May 31, 2018
Top Gun, released in 1986, starred Cruise as Lieutenant Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, Kelly McGillis, Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards and told the story of a hotshot pilot whose recklessness is only matched by his skills in the cockpit.
Although the plot for the upcoming sequel is under wraps, the film is expected to be set nearly 30 years after the original.
Joseph Kosinski, who is directing the sequel, told ComingSoon.net in October that his approach would be “appropriate for the times we live in.”
“The navy is very different now than it was in 1986,” said Kosinski, who previously worked with Cruise on 2013 sci-fi pic Oblivion.
“It’s just a different world now, so you can’t remake the first movie. It has to adapt, [but] I certainly want to re-create the experience of that movie, which gives you a front seat into the world of naval aviation and what it’s like to be in a fighter jet.”
Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the Tony Scott-directed original, will return to produce the sequel, along with Skydance’s David Ellison and Cruise.
