MTV is reporting that ‘Top Gun 2′ is not going to be a sequel to the classic Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer flick. When catching up with director Tony Scott, he had the following to say on this re-thinking of the film.

“What inspired me is that the world today is great, it’s so different from the world we touched originally. It’s really run by guys sitting in Nevada on computers playing war games. It’s a mixture of that, and it’s the end of the generation of fighter pilots. Not in a complete end to the generation, because these guys they go up in F-35s and they carry 10 drones with them. [But] it’s a very different movie.”

When asked if Cruise and Kilmer would reprise their roles as Maverick and Iceman, he only said he was talking with Jerry Bruckheimer and that he’d withold other details.