Disney guns aim high Feel the need: Disney's animated film Planes will pay homage to Top Gun. While plans to get Tom Cruise back in the cockpit for Top Gun 2 collapsed in 2012 with the death of the blockbuster's original director Tony Scott, Disney's next animated film Planes - set "above the world of Cars" - has announced a big-name cast, including two Top Gun alumni. The story of a crop duster, Dusty, who qualifies for a prestigious around-the-world aeroplane race despite a fear of heights, will star Dane Cook, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and John Cleese. It will also feature two F-18 fighter jets, Bravo and Echo, voiced by Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards, a.k.a. Iceman and Goose. The pair help Dusty out when he gets into a "situation over the Pacific." It sounds like the final dogfight in Top Gun and, combined with a trailer featuring lots of visual nods to Scott's masterpiece, come September, we may all feel the need ... the need for animation. Hollywood superhero News that we will see Robert Redford in Captain America: The Winter Soldier this time in 2014 is a step up, even for the Avengers franchise. The 76-year-old Hollywood heavyweight has confirmed he will play the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., the secret government agency that runs the Avengers, headed until this point by Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury. "I wanted to do something different," Redford told media during interviews for his new film The Company You Keep. The sequel will again star Chris Evans in the title role. The story is set in the present with flashbacks to World War II, so it is unclear if Redford will play a predecessor to Jackson's Fury, or his modern-day superior. Toad caught on the hop It seems every actor who ever walked on the set of an X-Men movie will make an appearance in Bryan Singer's coming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Martial arts guru and actor Ray Park, who played Toad, can be seen as Snake Eyes in G. I. Joe: Retaliation and will be visiting Australia in April for Supanova fan events in Melbourne and the Gold Coast, but he hasn't received any phone calls from Singer asking him to be in the origins movie. Yet. "I wish I was," he tells Fairfax. I hope so, [but] I have a feeling they're into production now, I saw Patrick Stewart a few weeks ago at a convention... he was telling me they're getting into production next month and I said maybe I could come back as Toad. Park's perfect impression of Stewart's response is bitter-sweet: "He said, 'Oh well, you did die off in the first one."'