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    No./1 Two mavericks reunite

    Apr 05, 2020 4 minutes
    EDITED BY JOHN NUGENT CHRIS HEWITT

    IT’S BEEN 34 years since Tom Cruise and producer Jerry Bruckheimer (plus director Tony Scott, and producer Don Simpson) first felt the need…the need for speed, and made Top Gun , the movie that propelled Cruise’s already-rising star into the stratosphere. Where he’s remained since. Thirty-four years, during which time they felt the need again…the need for speed again by essentially remaking Top Gun as the car-based Days Of Thunder in 1990. And then, after that, while they both continued to feel the need…the need for speed, they also felt the need…the need to work with other people.

    Now and again, their

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