<P> Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film , directed by Tony Scott , and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer , in association with Paramount Pictures . The movie is the first installment of the Top Gun film series . The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. , and was inspired by an article titled `` Top Guns '' published in California magazine three years earlier . The film stars Tom Cruise , Kelly McGillis , Val Kilmer , Anthony Edwards , and Tom Skerritt . Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete `` Maverick '' Mitchell , a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise . He and his Radar Intercept Officer ( RIO ) Nick `` Goose '' Bradshaw ( Edwards ) are given the chance to train at the Navy 's Fighter Weapons School at the former Naval Air Station ( NAS ) Miramar in San Diego . </P>
<P> Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film , directed by Tony Scott , and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer , in association with Paramount Pictures . The movie is the first installment of the Top Gun film series . The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. , and was inspired by an article titled `` Top Guns '' published in California magazine three years earlier . The film stars Tom Cruise , Kelly McGillis , Val Kilmer , Anthony Edwards , and Tom Skerritt . Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete `` Maverick '' Mitchell , a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise . He and his Radar Intercept Officer ( RIO ) Nick `` Goose '' Bradshaw ( Edwards ) are given the chance to train at the Navy 's Fighter Weapons School at the former Naval Air Station ( NAS ) Miramar in San Diego . </P>
who played with tom cruise in top gun
who played with tom cruise in top gun
Kelly McGillis , Val Kilmer , Anthony Edwards , and Tom Skerritt
Kelly McGillis , Val Kilmer , Anthony Edwards , and Tom Skerritt