Top Gun: Maverick is FINALLY hitting the big screen after several release date delays due to the pandemic and we’ve just received a new trailer for the film that reminds us all that Tom Cruise “has the need for speed!”
Per the film’s official synopsis, “After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick 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.” The film also stars Miles Teller, 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.
Believe it or not, Top Gun: Maverick was originally slated for release on July 12, 2019, but that date was delayed to “allow the production to work out all the complex fight sequences.” The film was then moved to June 26, 2020, and then bumped up two days to June 24, 2020. Due to the ongoing COVID-10 pandemic, the film was delayed again until December 23, 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. Hopefully, this is the last delay we’ll have for Top Gun: Maverick.
Did YOU like the new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick? It will make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2022, before opening wide on May 27, 2022, to celebrate Memorial Day weekend. You can also check out the new official key art for the film below!