More than 35 years after the original Top Gun, the Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick is FINALLY hitting the big screen after several release date delays due to the pandemic and Paramount Pictures just dropped a new trailer for the film that reminds us all that Tom Cruise ‘has the need for speed!’
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, and encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: ‘Rooster,’ – the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka ‘Goose.’
You can check out the trailer below:
In addition to Teller, the film also stars Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer is back as Iceman.
Top Gun: Maverick has been in the works since 2010 at Paramount. Originally slated for release on 12 July 2019, it was met with a ton of delays. First, it was delayed to ‘allow production to work out all the complex flight sequences.’ Then, after COVID struck, it was pushed off almost indefinitely. It was moved to 26 June 2020, and then to 24 June 2020 shortly thereafter.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the release date was delayed again until 23 December 2020. That release date seemed like a lock but Paramount Pictures moved the film again to July 2, 2021, partially due to scheduling conflicts with Tom Cruise, as well as the rise of more COVID-19 cases. The film shifted dates again to November 19, 2021, but it was delayed one more time to its current date of May 27, 2022.
The film will (allegedly) make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as an Official Selection Screening on 18 May 2022, before opening wide on 27 May 2022 to celebrate Memorial Day weekend.
Hopefully, this is the last delay we’ll have for Top Gun: Maverick, but the question remains: will Top Gun: Maverick be able to capture the magic of the original?
