Skydance is producing the sequel to 1980s classic with Jerry Bruckheimer Justin Marks , the writer behind Disney’s upcoming live-action version of The Jungle Book , in negotiations to work on Top Gun 2 , the sequel to the 1980s Tom Cruise classic that is being made by Paramount and Skydance. The move will goose up the long-in-the-works sequel and comes after the recent Paramount arrival of producer Jerry Bruckheimer. After years with a studio deal at Disney, Bruckheimer moved to the Melrose Avenue-based studio lot in April. David Ellison of Skydance is also producing. Skydance's Dana Goldberg is exec producing. Cruise is slated to return as ace pilot Maverick in a story that aims to show the relevance of good old fashioned pilots in today’s high-tech, drone-centric war environment. Peter Craig, the scribe who wrote Ben Affleck’s The Town, wrote the previous draft a couple of years ago. The project lost some jet fuel when Tony Scott, the director of the 1986 original a