Maverick may be one of Tom Cruise's biggest box office hits of his career, but for years, the actor wasn't interested in returning to the franchise because he wanted to challenge himself. Speaking about the film during a screen talk at the BFI in London,

Top Gun franchise star Tom Cruise shares why he resisted making a sequel for more than 30 years before the success of Top Gun: Maverick.

In the final years of his life, Val Kilmer spoke fairly bluntly about how he didn’t want to make one of his most famous movies: Top Gun. “I thought the script was silly, and I disliked warmongering in films,