Oh yes! The rumors are true. Top Gun 2, starring me, is in pre-production.

In the film I play a flight school teacher -- Professor Maverick -- and I have to tame a hot shot female rookie in the ways of flying and the ways of love. But are the two not one in the same? I suppose film school students will be arguing that thesis for years to come so I won't spoil any dissertations.

That's the only plot point that's been officially leaked. But here are some other parts of the movie, I'll give away:

This young strumpet will serenade ME with a song. If that's not the definition of irony, I don't know what is. We're still trying to come up with the ditty, but "Rocket Man," "A Kuma Matata," and Foreigner's "Hot-blooded" are all finalists.

A 45-minute shirtless volleyball scene. The first one left you craving more -- precisely 43 minutes and 30 seconds more. Also an additional 15 minutes in the DVD extras.

The Russian threat is now the Iranian threat -- and more broadly-- the philosophical divide between Islamic-fundamentalism and Western secularism.

Stupid, fat (and gay?) Val Kilmer has a cameo in which he says he got depressed and fat in real life because I beat him so badly at flight simulation challenges. Then I play him in volleyball for 25 additional minutes.

Anthony Edwards comes back from the dead. It turns out his death was faked to protect him against then skinny Ice Man (sorry I just saw Batman).

On that note, we'll be doing a prequel in 2012 called Maverick Begins. It tells the gripping story about how I became really, really into planes. Every living ancestor of mine, dating back to the Wright Brothers, was killed in plane crashes. Displaced guilt + ambition + sense of entitlement = Maverick. But, again I'll leave the rest of this character analyzation for the academics.