• Jon Cryer wants to reunite with Charlie Sheen for third ‘Hot Shot’ movie.
• Follows success of Top Gun: Maverick, which took in more than half a billion dollars at box office.
• The two spoofs are based on 1986 film starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.

Jon Cryer wants to do third ‘Hot Shot’ movie after the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.

After the critically acclaimed action film ‘Top Gun’ took in more than half a billion dollars at the box office, the ‘Pretty in Pink’ star took to Twitter to appeal to co-star Charlie Sheen – whom he also worked opposite on the long-running CBS sitcom ‘Two and Half Men’ – to reunite to make their 1991 and 1993 ‘Top Gun’ spoofs into a trilogy.

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“Just saw Top Gun: Maverick,” the 57-year-old actor, who only appeared in the original, posted on Saturday (04.06.22). For Hot Shots: Part Tres, I believe it’s time to rejoin with Sheen.

The two films, which star Charlie as Topper Harley, a Navy fighter pilot, and Jon as Lieutenant Jim ‘Wash Out’ Pfaffenbach, alongside Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, and Lloyd Bridges, are based on the 1986 film, which featured Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. Tom and Val reprise their roles as Maverick and Iceman, respectively, in the record-breaking smash hit sequel directed by Joseph Kosinski, who revealed that he “didn’t do a director’s cut” because all of the material had to be “pretty good” to make it to the final version.

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The 48-year-old director said: “I didn’t do a director’s cut. We really just started putting the movie together as we shot it. So, I think by the time we had finished shooting, we just had a film. First pass, it was probably 2:35, I would say, to have everything in there. But very quickly we were cutting it down. So, there’s a couple scenes, they’re left out. There’s a couple, like there’s a shot in the first trailer of Maverick looking up at the F-14 on the stick, things like that, that didn’t make it in. But for the most part, it was just about, the shot or the scene had to be pretty good to make it into this cut.”