It's been nearly 30 years since Tom Cruise donned the "Top Gun" flight gear and embraced his friend Goose with the "Need for Speed." But E! News reports that the rumors that have been floating around Hollywood may just be true this time -- "Top Gun 2" is happening.

In 2012, when the rumors started making their rounds, Tom Cruise was attached to the project and even scouted locations for filming with director Tony Scott. But Scott died later that year at the age of 68 and the momentum had been taken out of the project.

The co-producer for the project, David Ellison, was recently speaking at a press event promoting his new movie "Terminator: Genisys" when he spoke with Collider about the "Top Gun" project.

"Justin Marks is writing the screenplay right now. He has a phenomenal take to really update that world for what fighter pilots in the Navy has turned into today," Ellison told Collider.

"There is an amazing role for Maverick in the movie and there is no 'Top Gun' without Maverick, and it is going to be Maverick playing Maverick," he added. "It is I don't think what people are going to expect, and we are very, very hopeful that we get to make the movie very soon. But like all things, it all comes down to the script, and Justin is writing as we speak."

"Maverick playing Maverick" is all the confirmation you need to know that Tom Cruise will be back to reprise his role in the film.

The veteran Hollywood actor Cruise has made a career out of the action-packed, adrenaline-pumping thrill movies that have made him so famous to this day and "Top Gun" was the start of all this. It was his debut to the world as a serious action hero actor that puts him in league with all other action stars of today -- and yesterday.