I have a separate e-mail account, linked to my name on the Film Threat boards, designed to catch queries/abuse regarding my work over there. Feedback comes in many forms; constructive, pejorative, and on occasion, illuminating. To wit, this message from "Xyborg Samurai:"
Given that America and Iran look set to duel with each other for dominance of the Middle East over the next 15 years or so ~ and with the emergence of the Persian Gulf as the main theatre in which American naval aviators will conduct the bulk of their future peacetime and combat missions ~ wouldn't it be ace if an older and wiser Tom 'Maverick' Cruise and Val 'Ice Man' Kilmer took to the skies in a Top Gun sequel, only this time riding F/A-18 Super Hornets out of the USS Ronald Reagan and going up against the kamikazes of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (the only aviators left who still fly "Maverick & Goose" F-14 Tomcats left over from the Shah era)?
And after getting shot down in the Strait of Hormuz and taken captive by the IRGC, Maverick and Ice find themselves in an Iran totally unlike the fanatical Islamist state of FOX news propaganda and are eventually freed through "dialogue-among-civilizations" diplomacy after having embarked on a journey of American-Iranian rediscovery that could make this film one of the schmaltziest yet ground-breaking pieces of inter-cultural rapprochement between two mortal adversaries who desperately need to extricate themselves from what could end up being a world-ending thermonuclear dance of death?
I just. Wow. It's...ambitious, but I can't say it sounds like much of an action movie. If I didn't know better, I'd think Erik Blevins had finally gotten his GED.
Neat idea. Unfortunately, Val Kilmer is now too bloated to be able to fit inside a cockpit.
“Audiences know what they expect and that is all they are prepared to believe in.”
From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
It would never work.