A sequel to Top Gun could be closer than you think (Picture: Paramount)

We’ve been waiting for years for a sequel to 80s megahit Top Gun – but now it looks as though the follow-up might be about to become a reality.

According to producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a follow-up to the 1986 blockbuster could be going in to production very soon, complete with original star Tom Cruise.

‘We’ve been trying to get that movie made for 30 years, and I think we’re getting closer and closer,’ Bruckheimer told the Huffington Post earlier this week.

‘Don (Simpson, Bruckheimer’s late producing partner) and I tried to develop something, we didn’t succeed. Tom Cruise took over , and he tried to develop something, and he didn’t succeed. Now we’re back at it.’




Bruckheimer added that the movie – whose plot is likely to centre around drones and their influence on pilots – was ‘just getting to the starting place and could well go into production in the near future.

‘Fortunately for Tom, he’s very busy, so you have to find a slot he can fit into and get a budget that Paramount feels they can make the picture,’ he explained.

The original film starred Cruise, Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards as students caught up in rivalry at an elite naval flying school.

Director Scott is reported to have met Cruise about a possible sequel in 2012, just days before taking his own life – and is said to have been ‘burning with excitement’ about making the movie.