For a time it had seemed as if
the plans for making a sequel to Paramount Pictures’ 1986 blockbuster (and Tom
Cruise starrer) “Top Gun” would remain little more than talk. But after years
of obstacles (particularly the 2012 suicide of original director Tony Scott)
since serious discussion of a follow-up began in 2010, Paramount finally
revealed “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2017, with an actual trailer debuting at the
San Diego Comic Con this past July. Seeing Cruise’s character, Naval Aviator “Maverick,”
as an older and wiser but irreverent veteran was a major treat. Now, more of
his circumstances are revealed in a new preview.
Vanity Fair tells us that a second trailer for Paramount’s “Top
Gun: Maverick” was released just this Monday, December 16. In a cute cue, the
preview sort of starts where the initial one left off, with a shot of the F-14
Tomcat, the aircraft used in the original film and now long-retired, flying
over a snowy mountain range. The starting voiceover is a contrast to the scathing
assessment of Ed Harris’ rear admiral character on the now fifty-something Capt.
Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise). This time, it is an instructor from the
US Navy’s Top Gun aviator school introducing Maverick as the program’s best
graduate.
Mitchell has pointedly kept his naval
rank no higher than a Captain in all his years of service, to keep his flying
duties and avoid being grounded with a desk job. Now he finds himself
instructing a new batch of Top Gun cadets, one of whom is Lt. Bradley Bradshaw
(Miles Teller), call sign “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s departed RIO, Nick “Goose”
Bradshaw. Rooster seems to have a bone to pick with Maverick too, which would
factor into Mitchell’s own conflict with the ghosts from his past and the inevitable
end to his career.
Much like the original “Top Gun”
directed by Tony Scott and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, “Top Gun: Maverick”
really pulls out the stops in real-filed aircraft footage, showcasing actual
maneuvers and Tom Cruise enduring the G-forces in the cockpit of the F/A-18
Hornet, the primary aircraft of this film. There was however a cheeky tease of
Maverick and a worthy Top Gun pilot flying what appears to be the allegedly
fictional hypersonic recon aircraft that was supposed to replace the SR-71
Blackbird, codenamed Project Aurora.
Cruise, Ed Harris and Miles
Teller are joined in the cast by Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro,
Danny Ramirez, and Val Kilmer as Mitchell’s old Top Gun rival (now-Vice
Admiral) Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. “Top Gun: Maverick” from Paramount premieres
next year on June 2020.
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