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'Top Gun 2' Is Happening, And Twitter Is Already Predicting The Plot

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Actor Tom Cruise confirmed Tuesday that “Top Gun 2” is “definitely happening.”

“It’s true. It’s true,” he told Australian morning show “Sunrise.” “I’m going to start filming it probably in the next year. I know. It’s happening. It is definitely happening, you’re the first people that I’ve said this to.”

But with few details on what the sequel to the hit 1986 movie will be about, Twitter users have been busy imagining a whole host of possible plot lines.

Some have suggested that the follow-up film could focus on drone strikes, while others have mockinglyasked how it will deal with the ageing of its stars some 30 years on.

Here’s a sampling of the best plot ideas so far:

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The iconic Maverick in Top Gun (credit:Paramount)
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As Cole Trickle in Days Of Thunder alongside Nicole Kidman (credit:Paramount )
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As Ethan Hunt in the first Mission Impossible (credit:Paramount)
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Mission Impossible II in 2000 (credit:Paramount)
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As Chief John Anderton in Minority Report (credit:Twentieth Century Fox)
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As Nathan Algren in The Last Samurai (credit:Warner Bros.)
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As Vincent in 2004 film Collateral (credit:Paramount)
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The 2005 film War of The Worlds (credit:Paramount )
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With Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day (credit:Twentieth Century Fox)
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Tropic Thunder (credit:Dreamworks)
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (credit:Paramount)
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