TOP GUN 2 to be Scripted by Justin Marks
Justin Marks, the screenwriter behind films such as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and Jon Favreau's upcoming Jungle Book movie has been hired by Paramount Pictures and Skydance to script Top Gun 2.
The Jerry Bruckheimer production has been in slow development for years, but it looks like they are ready to try and move forward. Tom Cruise is set to reprise his role in the film as Maverick, and the story will focus on "the relevance of good old fashioned pilots in today’s high-tech, drone-centric war environment."
Tony Scott was set to direct the film before he passed away in 2012. The film he was developing was written by Peter Craig, who is the same guy who wrote Ben Affleck’s The Town.
The only movie that I've seen from Marks is Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, and it was terrible beyond belief. I'm honestly shocked that he still has a career after that. Not only did he write Jungle Book, but he also worked with Bruckheimer on a project called War Dogs, which centered around military dogs. He's also adapting the Vertigo comic Federal Bureau of Physics for Warner Bros. Hopefully these upcoming films are better than what he's done in the past.
Source: THR