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May 27, 2022 · Top Gun: Maverick is dedicated to the memory of Tony Scott, the action movie filmmaker who directed the original 1986 film. Scott, the younger brother of Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott, died on Aug. 19, 2012, in Los Angeles. He was 68. Possible spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick ahead.
Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. , and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier.
May 16, 1986 · Top Gun: Directed by Tony Scott. With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards. As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
He was asked by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer to direct Top Gun (1986) starring Tom Cruise. He would work again with Cruise on another high adrenaline film Days of Thunder (1990), which proved less successful. He followed the success of Top Gun with the sequel Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) with Eddie Murphy, which was well received.
May 26, 2022 · May 26, 2022. As Top Gun: Maverick blasts into theaters an astounding 36 years after the original, the celebration has a bittersweet note due to the absence of director Tony Scott. It’s been almost a decade since Tony, the younger brother of fellow director Ridley Scott, took his own life.
May 14, 2021 · A Royal College of Art graduate who’d crashed and burned in Hollywood a few years earlier with his inscrutably esoteric lesbian vampire movie “The Hunger,” Scott scored the “Top Gun” gig...
Aug 20, 2012 · Film director Tony Scott died yesterday after jumping off a Los Angeles bridge. His legacy in film includes movies that were brash and bombastic, the cinematic equivalent of an adrenaline rush....
