Tom Cruise Was Dead Against a 'Top Gun' Sequel in 1990. This is Why He Changed His Mind

An old Playboy interview reveals that the young actor has reservations about turning it into a franchise

arrived just in time. Cinemas are still reeling from lockdown losses and struggling to compete with streaming platforms, but Tom Cruise’s long-awaited, critically acclaimed sequel – with its $1.24 billion global box office returns – has injected some hope into the industry. The path for old-school blockbusters looks a little brighter in its high-hypersonic wake.

What’s more, for a franchise that’s still as fixated as ever on macho posturing and American military glory, it hasn’t faced a huge amount of criticism. Thatis basically an advert for the US Navy goes without saying – the top brass were even involved in production – but it seems that modern audiences are more than happy to check their quibbles with the war machine at the door for a bit of mindless fun., for all its box office success, suffered more at the hands of the press.

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