Warren Skaaren: Uncredited Screenwriter of Original Top Gun
“I feel the need, the need for speed”
Producer Don Simpson had a golden-goose knack for finding non-fiction articles and making them hit movies. He had done that with The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night (Saturday Night Fever) and Flashdance by construction worker-by-day, erotic-dancer-by-night, Maureen Mawder.