Top Gun: Maverick: Tom Cruise gets the adrenaline pumping in this brand new trailer

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29 Mar 2022, 14:33

Almost three years after its original release date, we’ve got a new glimpse at the upcoming Top Gun sequel. 

Hollywood icon Tom Cruise is back as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in this high-octane pilot adventure, set over thirty years after the events of the very first film. 

This new movie comes with a host of new faces too, including Miles Teller as Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s late friend Goose, as well as Jennifer Connelly, John Hamm and Ed Harris. 

One person making a return is Val Kilmer as former rival Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, who personally recommends Maverick for this new mission. 

The film will make its debut at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and finally hit cinemas on 27th May. 

The movie's release date has been rescheduled seven times, and was originally meant to come out in July 2019 but had to push that date back due to allow more time to film the flight sequences.

In the new trailer, fans are treated to a look at the new Top Gun graduates as they discuss their new teacher, and hear from John Hamm’s Vice Admiral Cyclone.

Watch the new trailer here:

“Let me be perfectly blunt,” Admiral Cyclone says. “You are not my first choice. You are here at the request of Admiral Kazansky, a.k.a. Iceman. He seems to think that you have something left to offer the Navy. What that is, I can't imagine.”

Maverick quickly interjects: “With all due respect, sir, I'm not a teacher. Just want to manage expectations.”

Rooster’s dad, Goose, died in the first Top Gun movie after a training mission goes wrong, and the animosity from Goose’s now grown-up son is palpable. 

Rooster, unwilling to be taken under Maverick’s wing, tells Maverick: “My dad believed in you. I’m not going to make the same mistake.”

The film’s official synopsis reads: “After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell 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 specialised 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.”

Top Gun: Maverick flies into cinemas on May 27, 2022.