‘Top Gun’ Wolfman Actor Sues Paramount Over Image Used in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

A star within the OG “Top Gun” is suing Paramount, claiming the film firm ripped off his picture for the hit sequel.

In response to authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Barry Tubb, who performed Wolfman within the 1986 monster hit, says the time period “sequel” was by no means talked about or contemplated in his unique contract. Due to this fact, they’d no proper to make use of his mug in “Top Gun: Maverick.”

The scene in rivalry — two of the sequel’s important characters Hangman (performed by Glen Powell) and Coyote (Greg Tarzan Davis) uncover Rooster Bradshaw (Miles Teller) is Goose’s surviving son.

Rooster factors on the {photograph} of the Top Gun Class of ’86 hanging behind him … and when the digital camera zooms in, you see Wolfman sitting beside Goose, Iceman, and Maverick.

Tubb says they’d no proper to make use of that picture, by no means requested permission and by no means paid him a cent. He is asking for unspecified damages, however on condition that the flick has grossed practically $1.5 billion, he desires quite a bit.