Top Gun is a 1986 film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by the article "Top Guns" written by Ehud Yonay for California Magazine. The film stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer and Tom Skerritt. Cruise plays LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
