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:
@nktpnd Top Gun 2 mainly just takes place in the Pentagon trying to figure out why the F-35 is so behind schedule
— Tummy Sticks (@_tummysticks) May 23, 2017
Top Gun 2 is officially happening.
— Andy Ruther (@AndyRuther) May 24, 2017
Premise: Tom Cruise battles rude United Airlines flight attendants on a cross country flight.
Top Gun 2 is officially in the works. Get ready for the sweatiest, sexiest game of shuffleboard EVER.
— Aaron Wiener (@Wieneraaron) May 24, 2017
Top Gun 2: Highway to the Calzone Zone
— ronchronchronch (@ronchronchronch) May 24, 2017
@Hardywolf359 What is the cast gonna do for #topgun2 ? Chase each other with their scooters?? ♿♿♿♿
— Betty Boogaloo (@BettyBoogaloo) May 24, 2017
Top Gun 2: Bottom Gun
— Churlish (@Cryptoterra) May 24, 2017
You do know Top Gun 2 is just a series of endless ready to fly program meetings in which cost overruns and delivery slips are reported.
— JP (@jplonie) May 24, 2017
Top Gun 2 will be about Pete Mitchell breaking all the rules and then waiting on paperwork to clear to get DoD travel reimbursements.
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 24, 2017
"Top Gun 2" is happening and I just have one request... pic.twitter.com/1345ICZduF
— Karen Howell (@karenehowell) May 24, 2017
Top Gun 2 is just three hours of maverick sitting in a windowless room staring at a monitor showing the feed from a drone camera
— Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) May 24, 2017
Top Gun 2: Tom Cruise is now a teacher at Top Gun school and all the students are drones. he's the only actor in the movie
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) May 23, 2017
Top Gun 2 should essentially be Grumpy Old Men with drones.
— Marques Lyons 🎧 (@ProfOfMusic) May 24, 2017
I heard in Top Gun 2 they give that lady's breath back
— Rachel Jane Andelman (@rajandelman) May 24, 2017
Top Gun 2 is about Maverick returning to the Navy because he's the only one who can get an old version of powerpoint to work.
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) May 23, 2017
Top Gun 2 is going to be 180 minutes of Tom Cruise sitting on a runway while his F-35A's code debugs until a $1000 drone explodes on him.
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) May 23, 2017
I've said it before: Tom Cruise is the Tom Skerritt/mentor for Goose's kid. "I flew with your old man. Damn good pilot." Iceman is a slob
— Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) May 23, 2017
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