Iron Eagle is a 1986 military action film directed by Sidney J. Furie, co-written by Kevin Alyn Elders and starring Jason Gedrick and Louis Gossett Jr. While it received mixed reviews, being unfavorably compared to the similarly-themed "Top Gun" released the same year, the film earned $24,159,872 at the U.S. box office. "Iron Eagle" was followed by three sequels: "Iron Eagle II", "", and "Iron Eagle on the Attack", with Gossett being the only actor to appear in all four films.