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Jerry Bruckheimer is producing the movie which will see Top Gun star Tom Cruise reprise the role of ace pilot Maverick in a story which is described as being designed to, “show the relevance of good old fashioned pilots in today’s high-tech, drone-centric war environment.”
Peter Craig (The Town) wrote the previous draft, but that version of Top Gun 2 stalled when director Tony Scott – who helmed the 1986 original – tragically committed suicide in 2012.
Marks’s Jungle Book has been widely praised, and Favreau has managed to assemble a cast which includes Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Idris Elba as a result. He previously worked with Bruckheimer on War Dogs at Disney, a script which focused on military canines. Marks is also adapting the popular Vertigo comic book series Federal Bureau of Physics for Warner Bros.
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