Top Gun series
By now it should no longer be noteworthy when a big title from the 1980s is revived with some of the current cast. Star Wars, Rocky, Rambo, Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters are all active again. The notable thing with Top Gun is there was only one. Star Tom Cruise resisted big paychecks to make Top Gun sequels because he wanted to play a lot of different roles. Over the years every now and then I would hear rumors of another Top Gun film. After Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol was released and revived Cruise's career word came out that a Top Gun was being developed until the original director Tony Scott committed suicide. I was saddened by Scott's death as the circumstances were obviously extremely painful for Scott's friends and family. As a film fan Scott had become a very reliable director of entertaining films with a visual flourish. Except for Crimon Tide Scott's films were nowhere near as artistically inclined as his brother Ridley's but any audienc