In 1990, Tom Cruise, star of the 1986 blockbuster, ‘Top Gun’, said: Some people felt that “Top Gun” was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a lot of kids loved it. But I want the kids to know that’s not the way war is – that “Top Gun” was just an amusement park
Sleek jet fighters streak into the sun, with the pilots of the F-35 Lightning IIs and F-22 Raptors pulling heavy Gs as they perform high-speed maneuvers against an unseen enemy. Meanwhile, helicopters and bombers take on a high-value target on the ground, destroying it in a fiery explosion.
The family of the writer whose magazine article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie "Top Gun" sued Paramount Pictures Monday for copyright infringement over this year's "Top Gun: Maverick" sequel.
Ehud Yonay whose 1983 piece about the Top Gun school at Miramar Naval Air Station for California magazine inspired the original blockbuster starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis died in 2012.