The Sun reports that Tom Cruise has been asked to reprise his role as cocky fighter-pilot Maverick in a "Top Gun" sequel.

It's been twenty-two years since the first film in which Cruise played a Navy pilot trainee and now a sequel script has apparently been penned.

"The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor - and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot" a source tells the paper.