Top Gun: Maverick will screen at the Cannes Film Festival

Top Gun: Maverick has been a long time coming. The much-anticipated sequel was once slated to be released in 2019 but has remained grounded due to multiple pandemic-related delays. In addition to its upcoming theatrical release on May 27th, it’s now been reported that Top Gun: Maverick will also screen at the Cannes Film Festival, something which has been rumoured for quite some time.

As Top Gun: Maverick has been kept in the hanger for so long, Cannes would be a great place to show off the film. It’s still expected that Top Gun: Maverick will have its world premiere in San Diego. Should the Top Gun sequel screen at Cannes, it will be the first Tom Cruise to do so since Far and Away in 1992. No word on what date the film would screen at Cannes, but the festival is slated to run from May 17th-28th.

Top Gun: Maverick will once again focus on Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Cruise), one of the Navy’s best aviators and test pilots. When Maverick is tasked with training a new group of Top Gun graduates for a special mission, he also has to deal with the past when he runs into Rooster, the son of Maverick’s wingman and late best friend Goose. In addition to Tom Cruise, the Joseph Kosinski film will also star Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez, Monica Barbaro, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer.

The official synopsis for Top Gun: Maverick:

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 Top Gun 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”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Our own Chris Bumbray caught the first 12 minutes of Top Gun: Maverick at CinemaCon last year, and from the sounds of things, we’re in for a hell of a good time. Top Gun: Maverick will hit theaters on May 27, 2022.