Ugh, please let this be a hoax. I thought the first Top Gun was a lousy movie, and I don’t foresee the second being any better if Cruise stars and/or Tony Scott directs again.
BTW, interestingly or not, Cruise’s part was first offered to Matthew Modine (perhaps best known as Joker from Full Metal Jacket. Or, if you’re a former 80’s kid like me, Louden Swain in Visionquest). Modine had an issue with the “Cold War politics” of the film, and refused the part.