The recent announcement of a Top Gun 2 fueled almost entirely by corporate vanity certainly doesn’t scream “innovation,” but that’s exactly what director Tony Scott intends to do with it. In an interview with HitFix, Scott vowed that his return to what we can now call a franchise would be neither “remake” nor “reinvention,” but rather an all new movie examining the “the end of the era of fighter pilots”—specifically, the fact that RayBan-sporting flyboys doing mid-air acrobatics to a Kenny Loggins soundtrack have more or less been replaced by “computer geeks—these kids play war games in a trailer in Fallon, Nevada and if we ever went to war or were in the Middle East or the Far East or wherever it is, these guys can actually fly drones. They are unmanned aircraft. They operate them and then they party all night."