‘Top Gun 2’ Brings Christopher McQuarrie Into The Danger Zone For Script Rewrites
Fresh off the massive critical and commercial success ofMission: Impossible – Fallout,Christopher McQuarrieis feeling the need to reunite with his star and longtime collaboratorTom Cruiseonce again. The filmmaker has been tapped to rewrite theTop Gun 2script, which will make it McQuarrie and Cruise’s tenth film together.
Cruise revealed in an interview alongside McQuarrie for the upcoming issue ofEmpirethat the two are working together onTop Gun: Maverick.Sources confirmed to the outlet that McQuarrie is reworking portions of the script, as most of the screenplay, penned byPeter Craig(12 Strong),Justin Marks(Counterpoint), andEric Warren Singer(American Hustle), has already been completed.
This will make it McQuarrie and Cruise’s tenth collaboration together, after McQuarrie recently directed Cruise inFallout. Since the duo first worked together onValykrie,McQuarrie became Cruise’s go-to screenwriter for films likeThe Tourist(from which Cruise later dropped out) and when Cruise needed rewrites in a pinch forEdge of TomorrowandThe Mummy. McQuarrie would graduate to directing Cruise inJack ReacherandMission Impossible – Rogue Nationas well as, of course,Fallout.
McQuarrie’s enlistment to rewrite the script doesn’t bode ill for the film — after all, this same scenario happened withEdge of Tomorrow, which became a modern sci-fi masterpiece. Even with all of the writers attached, McQuarrie and Cruise together have proven to be an impressive team.
Joseph Kosinski,who previously directed Cruise inOblivion, helms the long-gestatingTop Gunsequel. The plot forTop Gun: Maverickremains under wraps, but it will likely focus on a new generation of pilots headed byMiles Teller’s Goose Jr. (not his actual name), the son of Goose, Maverick’s (Cruise) best friend who died tragically in an ejection accident.
Other fresh-faced stars joining the new generation of pilots includeGlen Powell(Everybody Wants Some),Thomasin McKenzie(Jojo Rabbit),Charles Parnell(A Million Little Pieces),Jay Ellis(Insecure),Bashir Salahuddin(GLOW),Danny Ramirez(Assassination Nation), andMonica Barbaro(The Good Cop).
Meanwhile,Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, andJennifer Connollyround out the cast, whileVal Kilmerreprises his role as Iceman.
