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It's almost time to return to the skies in Top Gun: Maverick !  The long-awaited follow-up film shared a brand-new trailer on Tuesday, giving fans a look at Tom Cruise's return to his iconic role as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell -- and this time, he's a teacher. 

But he's not calling himself that. "Good morning, aviators," Maverick tells his group of TOPGUN graduates, who are training for a specialized mission. "This is your captain speaking."

Van Kilmer also returns in the film, as Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, alongside franchise newcomers  Jennifer Connelly , Jon Hamm ,  Glen Powell  and  Miles Teller . It is Teller's character "Rooster" who offers another callback to the original film, as he plays the son of Maverick’s late friend Nick Bradshaw -- or as fans knew him, "Goose."

"My dad believed in you," Rooster tells Maverick in the trailer. "I'm not gonna make the same mistake."

ET spoke with producer Jerry Bruckheimer last year, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the original Top Gun , and the iconic filmmaker raved about seeing Cruise return to his beloved role in Maverick .

"He's just got the magic," Bruckheimer marveled of the A-lister. "You know what's so great about Tom? He's the hardest working guy. He's an amazing student who loves cinema, loves telling stories, does the stunts himself. He is the hardest working actor I've ever worked with. And maybe the hardest working individual I've ever worked with."

Cruise also used his flying expertise to make sure  Top Gun: Maverick  was as realistic as possible. This included getting his new co-stars  up to speed on flight training, and used to the g-forces of an F-18.

"Tom kept saying this over and over again: 'This has to be perfect we really have to work really really hard to make this the best it can be,'" Bruckheimer shared. "It took us 35 years to show how good we are."

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Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick trailer — I guess I like planes now?

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Never been much of a Plane Guy — I leave that to Sir Charlie Hall, master of flight simulators . But Top Gun: Maverick might just leave my head permanently in the clouds. A new trailer teases the long-awaited sequel’s ground drama, and more importantly, the high-speed aerial stunts star Tom Cruise ( The Mummy ) has cooked up for the film, which hits theaters this spring after many delays.

Top Gun: Maverick finds Cruise’s character Pete “Maverick” Mitchell graduating from rebel test pilot to instructor, leading a team of new TOPGUN hot shots in what a Paramount synopsis calls “a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.” The new squad includes Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), aka “Rooster,” the son of Goose, who was killed during a training exercise in the original 1986 film. Maverick confronting his past, deepest fears, new enemies, yadda yadda, PLANES.

“Everything you see in this film is real,” Cruise said way back at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con , where he premiered the first footage from the film. “We’re working with the Navy. I wanted to give you an experience of being inside that aircraft.”

Mission potentially accomplished. Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski ( Oblivion , Tron: Legacy ) seemed to have a found a modern way to innovate on Tony Scott’s original Top Gun action by mounting cameras inside real planes and soaring them in every which way. Even on the small screen, it looks quite grand. Am I a Plane Guy now? I might be a Plane Guy. Charlie, boot up Flight Simulator .

Top Gun: Maverick hits theaters and IMAX on May 27.

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• Trivia Stunt pilot Art Scholl was killed during the production of the movie, aged 54. He died when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a flat spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Scholl's last words over the radio were "I have a problem - I have a real problem." The exact cause of the crash was never determined, and neither the aircraft nor Scholl's body were ever recovered. The film is dedicated to him.
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Iceman : You! You are still dangerous. But you can be my wingman any time.

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• Crazy credits The opening credits sequence features a history of the Top Gun program before the title of the film appears on screen, with the remainder of the opening credits devoted to footage of planes being launched from and landing on an aircraft carrier.
• Alternate versions The version of the film shown on the Paramount Network has nearly all of the profane language intact (basically everything but the word "shit"). However, this version also randomly cuts out several scenes and parts of scenes, presumably to fit in the network time slot allotted. Scenes missing altogether include (but are certainly not limited to) Maverick and Goose conversing in their housing regarding whether or not they'll graduate, and Jester and Viper conversing, with Viper revealing hew knew Maverick's "old man." The latter is especially surprising considering this plot point plays a major role in a later scene.
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Tom Cruise enters 'Danger Zone' in first 13 minutes of 'Top Gun: Maverick': Here's what you need to know

LAS VEGAS — Tom Cruise just won CinemaCon , dominating the convention for national theater owners with a dazzling display of his envelope-pushing, "most dangerous" stunt ever for  "Mission: Impossible 7" and a reveal of the 13-minute opening of "Top Gun: Maverick."

After multiple pandemic-driven delays for the anticipated film, "Maverick" is due to hit screens nationwide Nov. 19.

The "Maverick" footage revealed at CinemaCon literally puts Cruise back in the danger zone. Fans of the original will rejoice knowing that the film opens with the classically awesome Kenny Loggins guitar-screed "Danger Zone," which became the soundtrack to summer 1986 when "Top Gun" first jetted into movie screens.

To boot, the scene is on an aircraft carrier with jets careening to stops on the platform. Very old school "Top Gun." Director Joseph Kosinski hits all the right touchstones from the original "Top Gun" right off the bat: Maverick (Cruise) grabbing his Ray-Bans, passing by photos of his deceased flight partner Goose (Anthony Edwards), throwing on that leather jacket, dramatically pulling the tarp off his motorcycle and then going for a joyride.

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Here's what we learned from the sneak footage, without getting all spoiler-y:

• Thank heavens Ed Harris returns to the screen to give Cruise's Maverick a suitable "Top Gun" foil. Looking tough as nails, Harris plays a drone-loving admiral who shuts down Cruise's jet program. But not before Cruise can get one more record-breaking flight in. As Cruise gets close to his record flight, Harris's newly-arrived admiral grunts, "You got some balls stick jockey, I'll give you that."
• Cruise's Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is still mourning his lost RIO Officer Goose. Flying through the clouds, he looks at the rising sun and murmurs, "Talk to me, Goose." In the original movie , Maverick was cleared following the investigation over Goose's death. But it looms large with Goose's son, Lt Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller) joining Cruise's elite pilot group. In the Super Bowl "Maverick" trailer, Mitchell shouts, "My dad believed in you, I'm not going to make the same mistake."
• Cruise is assigned as leader to the elite fighter training as a favor from an old friend, Admiral Kazansky. That's right, Val Kilmer's once cocky pilot Iceman is now an admiral, as seen in the footage displayed Thursday. There's even a framed picture of the admiral. Maverick is told, "He seems to think you have something to offer the Navy. What that is, I cannot imagine." Iceman did famously say in the original film, "You can be my wingman anytime."

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500 skydives, 13,000 motorbike jumps: Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible' stunt training pays off

Also shown at CinemaCon Thursday was elaborate behind-the-scenes footage of an "MI:7," stunt showing Cruise working with stuntmen to ride a motorbike off a massive ramp, over a mist-covered Norwegian cliff, free-falling in the air near the falling bike, and then parachuting to the ground.

"This is far and away the most dangerous thing I’ve attempted," said Cruise, in footage remarks. "We’ve been working on this for years."

The shoot took months working with separate stunt coordinators and with Cruise practicing the motorbike jump 13,000 times, including on a specially dug out quarry with cardboard boxes placed to save the motorcycle each time. Cruise said there were more than 500 skydives to get the free-fall near the walls of the Norwegian cliff right. 

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The footage shows Cruise naturally bringing the camera along when he finally does the Norwegian cliff jump, showing him putting in his ear plugs before go time. "I like to wear ear plugs so I don't hear myself scream," he says.

Cruise takes the long ramp ride, jumps into the mountain mist of the dramatic cliffs, flies in the air with the motorcycle and pulls the parachute out.

Even better is seeing writer-director Christopher McQuarrie watching the monitors nervously as Cruise takes flight, and holding his head in nervousness after the parachute finally opens. The cheering crowd at CinemaCon could relate to the action.

Cruise seemed unsatisfied, saying he could have held onto the motorcycle longer in the air. They set up to do the stunt, again. And again. And again.

"Tom Cruise rode a motorcycle off a cliff six times today," a stunt coordinator is heard saying at the end of the day.

McQuarrie looks relieved for now. "The only thing that scares me more is what we have planned for M:I8," he says.

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After three decades of service, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is still working hard as a courageous test pilot – avoiding the honourable yet unwanted promotion that would see an end to his flying days. As one of the Navy’s best aviators, he is tasked with training a detachment of Top Gun graduates. The group has a special mission that requires them to achieve something no pilot has ever done before them. Can Maverick help Rooster – the son of his late friend “Goose” – to overcome his uncertain future?

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Top Gun: Maverick is an action movie directed by Joseph Kosinski. It is also known as Top Gun 2. The movie stars Hollywood action icon Tom Cruise, who reprises the role of Maverick for the first time since 1986. He is joined by Jennifer Connelly as Penny Benjamin and Miles Teller as Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw. The movie, which is a direct sequel to Top Gun, was directed by Joseph Kosinski.

The Tom Cruise movie was screened at Cannes Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation. Top Gun: Maverick was released in theaters on 27 May, 2022.

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• In an interview during the promotional tour for The Mummy, Tom Cruise reveals that the sequel to Top Gun will be titled Top Gun: Maverick. He adds that Harold Faltermeyer, who composed music for the original movie, will return to score the sequel. ( Source: Access Hollywood )
• Joseph Kosinski is announced as the aviation movie’s director. Kosinski previously worked with Cruise on Oblivion in 2013. ( Source: Deadline )
• It is announced that Hans Zimmer will join Harold Faltermeyer to score the film. ( Source: ScreenRant )
• Paramount Pictures releases the first trailer for the movie. It shows Maverick speaking with Read Admiral, played by Ed Harris. ( Source: YouTube )
• The film premieres at the Cannes Film Festival and receives a 5-minute standing ovation. ( Source: Deadline )
• Top Gun: Maverick is released in theaters. ( Source: Paramount Pictures )

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“Want Mach 10? Let’s give ’em Mach 10.”

That line, delivered by Maverick (Tom Cruise) in the long-anticipated, and already quite popular , sequel to “Top Gun,” may help to prepare audiences for the fact that things have become a little bit more updated in the sky since the 1986 original.

This early sequence has Maverick arriving to discover that the hypersonic flight test he was meant to perform has been canceled by an admiral (Ed Harris), who would prefer to spend on drones.

But “canceled” is not in Maverick’s vocabulary, and he proceeds with the test as planned, aiming to reach Mach 10 speeds.

Discussing the scene, the director Joseph Kosinski said that he and his crew designed the sleek aircraft in conjunction with Skunk Works, a division of Lockheed Martin.

It is based on an aircraft “that may or may not exist,” he said. The shots of it in the hangar are “a full-scale mock-up that we built with their cooperation.”

Kosinski said the scene was meant to “take a turn and take ‘Top Gun’ into the future. Here we see Maverick on the very cutting edge of aviation.”

Pay close attention to the final shot of the scene, where Maverick takes off. It had to be done by one of the few Navy pilots cleared to fly what is called a low-altitude transition maneuver. The pressure wave the maneuver created destroyed a piece of the set, which meant the crew was only able to do the shot once.

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Get ready for ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’ Here’s where to watch the 1986 original

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With the release of the “Top Gun: Maverick” this week, now is a good time to look back at the 1986 Tom Cruise action film “Top Gun.”

While not critically acclaimed, the movie about U.S. Navy fighter pilots was the highest-grossing film of 1986 ($177 million, according to Box Office Mojo) and was pivotal in the careers of Cruise, director Tony Scott and several cast members, including Anthony Edwards (“ER”), Val Kilmer (“The Doors”), Kelly McGillis (“ The Accused ”), Tim Robbins (“ The Shawshank Redemption ”) and Meg Ryan (“ When Harry Met Sally ”).

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Rating: PG. Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes Streaming: Paramount+: Included | Netflix: Included (until May 31)| Vudu: Rent/Buy | Apple TV+: Rent/Buy | Amazon Prime: Rent/Buy Broadcast and cable: Paramount Network 5 and 7:30 p.m. Friday

From The Times’ May 16, 1986 review: “Top Gun” is a male bonding adventure movie that’s both exciting and disturbing, mind-boggling and vacuous. Allegedly based on the Navy’s crack fighter pilot program at San Diego’s Miramar Naval Base, it sucks us into a high-tech world of multimillion-dollar aircraft and hell-for-leather fliers — of huge carriers bobbing on gray oceanic deeps; jets streaking through vast skies piled high with clouds; heat-seeking missiles roaring toward enemy aircraft; sudden death in a wilderness of sky, water and radar screens.

You can’t help being impressed by this world — an eye-filling blowout zooming at you in Panavision and Dolby. Producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (“Flashdance,” “Beverly Hills Cop”) seem frankly infatuated with a vision of the Miramar trainees as rock ‘n’ roll air cowboys. The movie shows the flyboys (an appropriate word here) either in class, the shower room, the local bars or that vast playground of the air — and in the last two, they’re drowned in pounding techno-pop.

These are pilots you might see in a Calvin Klein ad; and Kelly McGillis — as Charlie, an astrophysicist who lectures on enemy capabilities — is the one who’d be wearing the Calvins. (McGillis gives a good performance — all husky voice, smoky eyes and Bacall-ish invitation — but she seems as out of place as Wernher von Braun might be, playing the Marlboro Man.)

The movie — directed by one-time commercial ace Tony Scott— is fixated on that mythical goal: “being the best.” The trainees are a fraternity of studs — with nicknames like Iceman, Sundown and Slider — butting heads for top notch in the outfit, and the script links sexual potency with their prowess as pilots. ( Read more ) — Michael Wilmington

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Things we weren’t expecting in this, our year of the lord 2023? Top Gun: Maverick 🤝 the Academy Awards. But it’s looking that way after all because the movie received a whole six Oscar nominations, including the coveted Best Picture. Unfortch, Tom Cruise did not fly his way (heh 😅) into an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and people had feelings . All of this to say, you should probably watch the Top Gun sequel if you haven’t already.

Top Gun: Maverick grossed more than $700 million domestically and more than $1.4 billion worldwide. So, yeah: A lot of people saw it in theaters. But hey, maybe you were busy spending all your money on the Downton Abbey movie , IDK!!! Either way, it’s not too late to catch up and watch Tom Cruise look incredibly cool in aviator sunglasses—you’re just probably going to have to do it on the small screen. And fortunately, there are several ways to watch Top Gun: Maverick depending on whose streaming log-ins you’re currently stealing.

The Free Option: Paramount+

If for some reason you have a Paramount+ account (lol), Top Gun: Maverick is actually right there and available to stream for no extra charge. And if you don’t have an account, you can always do the free trial to watch Top Gun: Maverick and then cancel it. Although let’s be honest. You will never remember to cancel it.

Watch on Paramount+

Less $ Options:

You can rent/buy Top Gun: Maverick on pretty much any streaming service, so take your pick. It’s going to set you back just $5.99.

Watch on Amazon Prime Video

Watch on Apple TV+

Watch on Redbox

Watch on Vudu

Watch on Google Play

A Word on Top Gun: Maverick ’s Oscar Chances

Before the nominations were released, Variety had Top Gun: Maverick in its Best Picture nomination prediction list, and the outlet also anticipated the movie would be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Visual Effects. All of those nomination predications came true except Best Cinematography, and instead, the film got a nod in the Best Original Song category for Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand.”

And finally, please be advised that the original Top Gun was nominated for multiple Academy Awards—and won one! The film got nominated for Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Effects Editing, and it won for Best Original Song (Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away”). So there’s definitely an Oscar precedent here!

Point is: There’s a huge chance Top Gun could win at least one Oscar this year, meaning (1) the entire (extremely good-looking) cast will likely be lurking on the red carpet and (2) you need to watch this movie. Happy viewing!

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