Tom Cruise has signed up for Top Gun 2 (Picture: Paramount Pictures)

Top Gun 2 is totally happening.

After months of speculation, producer Jerry Bruckheimer has finally confirmed that a follow-up to the 1986 film is in the works, and Tom Cruise is on board.

When asked whether the Hollywood star, who played Lieutenant Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in the original movie, would be returning to the skies for the sequel, Jerry said they wouldn’t have made it without him.

‘Yeah, of course [he’s coming back]. You don’t make Top Gun without Tom Cruise!’ he told Entertainment Tonight.


Tom, 53, had previously said he’d love to return as Maverick, but only if the project was filmed with real jets rather than CGI.



‘If I can figure it out, if all of us can figure it out, it’d be fun to do, I’d like to fly those jets again, but we got to do all the jets practical, no CGI on the jets,’ he told Extra in 2015.

‘I’m saying right now no CGI on the jets. If we can figure all that out, and the Department of Defense will allow us to do it, that would be fun.’

Tom with his co-star Kelly McGillis in Top Gun (Picture: Paramount Pictures)

We can only assume his terms have been agreed to.

Jerry, who was one of the producers on the first film, set tongues wagging about the sequel when he tweeted a pic with the Mission: Impossible star back in January.

‘Just got back from a weekend in New Orleans to see my old friend @TomCruise and discuss a little Top Gun 2,’ he wrote alongside the image.

Just got back from a weekend in New Orleans to see my old friend @TomCruise and discuss a little Top Gun 2. pic.twitter.com/vA2xK7S7JS — JERRY BRUCKHEIMER (@BRUCKHEIMERJB) January 26, 2016

Top Gun was a smash hit when it was released 30 years and is still considered to be one of Tom’s best ever films.

Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis also starred in the movie directed by Tony Scott, who died in 2012.

However it’s not clear whether they’ll be reprising their roles for the next installment as yet.

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