Legal troubles await Paramount Studios on the tarmac.

AsTop Gun: Maverickcontinues to soar at the box office, legal troubles await Paramount on the tarmac.

The studio also denied that the sequel derived from the original article.

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.Paramount Pictures

The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages, but requests profits from the sequel and that distribution be blocked.

Your kind is headed for extinction.'

Like Maverick, we reply, ‘Maybe so, sir.

But not today.’

As Maverick would say, ‘It’s time to buzz the tower.'"

DirectorJoseph Kosinski’s sequel debuted at No.

This article has been updated to reflect Toberoff’sstatement.