‘Top Gun’ at 40: what would have happened to Tom Cruise if Matthew Modine hadn’t turned it down?
Things might’ve looked very different.
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Why John Carpenter turned down ‘Top Gun’, and how he’d have made it: “It’s such a weird movie”
It would’ve been R-rated.
How the one movie Tom Cruise disowned made him a superstar: “It had things I love”
It worked out in the long run.
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ writer’s cousin suing Paramount over writing credit
Shaun Gray claims he should have been credited for the film.
Tom Cruise pays tribute ‘Top Gun’ co-star Val Kilmer: “I can’t tell you how much I admire his work”
They knew each other for decades.