We’re being given the opportunity to enjoy a sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun. We knew that, but what we didn’t know is anything else about the movie other than Tony Scott’s expressed interest to create a new movie in the world. Today we learn that the X-Men First Class scribes have been handed the reigns to create a script.
Source: The Film Stage
Paramount has hired Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, who started their careers with Agent Cody Banks and since worked on Thor, Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Andromeda. They will write the script for producers Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison, with no official plot details yet.
I didn’t like X-Men First Class nearly as much as most others and thought there was definite room for improvement throughout the movie. It’s completely unfair to judge these guys off that one movie alone, as it suffered a heavily rushed production, but I have a hard time feeling inspired by these guys considering how much I was disappointed in the latest X-flick.
So far Top Gun is not on my radar. At all. If they can somehow convince Tony Scott to be involved in this movie then I’ll take a stronger interest but as it stands this movie is a long way off from that.
Oh god I reallly hope they don’t try to make Tom Cruise’s Maverick character the center of attention. His days are done. If anything I would maybe make him an instructor at the academy or something to where he is a known presence but not the main presence.
Please bring back Michael Ironside..
X-men first class is one of the best comic based movie ever, and best x-men adaptation up to date
Thats mostly because the bar is pretty low. Aside from X2, what other great X-Men movies are there?
I think the main point was that it is one of the best comic movies ever made. The fact that it is perhaps the best X-Men movie is no shocker since 3 sucked hard and 1 was just ok. There have been some really good comic book movies recently. That should be the real point of debate.
One of the best comic movies? I disagree. It was one of the best this year, but even that is helped by the bar not being that high. Maybe if the movie was released 5 years ago but movies like Iron Man and Captain America have raised the bar quite a bit recently.
First Class suffered from awkward pacing and other issues, but I don’t wholly blame the writing team as they were under the gun with a short production schedule.