The want for pace! After a lot anticipation from each the cast and followers alike, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is lastly hitting theaters this month.
Cruise, 59, who performed pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in 1986’s Top Gun, introduced again in summer time 2017 {that a} sequel was within the works.
“We’re going to have the same tone that we had from the first,” the Jerry Maguire star informed Access Hollywood in June 2017, revealing the official title. “Stylistically, it’s going to be the same.”
The unique film — which additionally starred Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan and Val Kilmer — adopted a rookie Maverick as he attended the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons college. Throughout the movie, Maverick went head-to-head with Kilmer’s Iceman as they competed to be “top gun” a.ok.a. the perfect pilot within the class.
More than 30 years later, Cruise’s Maverick will return to his outdated stomping grounds in Top Gun: Maverick to practice the most recent Top Gun recruits, together with Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller), who’s the son of his late pal Nick “Goose” Bradshaw (Edwards).
“Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears,” the movie’s official synopsis reads. “Culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.”
While followers had to wait 4 years to see the sequel come to fruition, Glen Powell, who performs scholar Hangman within the new film, teased the completed product in August 2020 after wrapping filming one year prior.
“Tom and I talked after I watched it, and I told him! I was like, ‘I literally have no more fingernails left. I’ve chewed off all of my fingernails.’ … You cry, you laugh. It’s got adventure. It’s got romance,” the Texas native, 33, completely informed Us Weekly on the time. “It’s just like one of those movies, where you’re like, ‘Oh, God, why can’t all movies be this fun and great?’ It’s so rare.”
The Scream Queens alum confessed that he did shed a tear or two whereas watching the film. “It was a manly cry!” Powell mentioned with fun. “There were tears but they were dry and salty, you know!”
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