When it comes to the great Jerry Bruckheimer action films post the $1.49 billion grossing success of Top Gun: Maverick, most of them are game for a sequel, including one to the 1995 Tony Scott directed nuclear submarine thriller, Crimson Tide.
“We have a really good director-writer talking to the Navy right now about what’s going on under the water,” Bruckheimer said in an interview with Rich Eisen. ‘We have Denzel (Washington). If we give him a good script, I think he’d do it.”
Disney had no further comment relating to the status of Crimson Tide or talent attached, the movie being a theatrical release from its adult Touchstone division.
“We had Quentin Tarantino and Robert Townsend writing on that film,” said Bruckheimer about the original, “I don’t know if I’ll ever replicate that type of writing on a film.”
Crimson Tide followed Washington who plays a cocky, young Navy first officer who stages a mutiny to block his trigger-happy Captain, played by the late 2x Oscar winner Gene Hackman, from launching missiles before confirming his orders to do so. The movie also had a kickass score by Hans Zimmer. The movie was nominated for three Oscars including Sound, Editing and Sound Effects Editing. The movie opened to No. 1 during the second weekend of May 1995 to $18.6M and ended its domestic run at $91.3M and north of $157M worldwide.
Eisen asked about the intense verbal face-off scene between Washington and Hackman and what went down on set. Bruckheimer answered, “The way Gene worked is that he’d sit with this wife over the weekend and memorize the whole week’s pages. When he showed up on the set, he didn’t like improv because he had it all memorized. He just dove into it, and Denzel dove into it. Both of them really went at it.”
As far as Top Gun 3, “we’re in the process of another,” said Bruckheimer.
“Tom wants to do another Days of Thunder,” Bruckheimer added also mentioning that he’s open to Robert Duvall returning as well.
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