Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Top Gun: Maverick (2021)

Top Gun: Maverick Movie Storyline. 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, 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 (2021) - Tom Cruise
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Tom Cruise

Top Gun: Maverick is an American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie and a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. It is the sequel to 1986’s Top Gun. The film stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film.

The film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States and Canada on November 19, 2021, by Paramount Pictures. It will also be available to stream on Paramount+ 45 days after its theatrical debut. It was originally scheduled for release on July 12, 2019, but was postponed to “allow the production to work out all the complex flight sequences”. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and scheduling conflicts, the film received further delays.

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Preliminary production on the film officially started on May 30, 2018, in San Diego, California. During late August a 15-person film crew from Paramount and Bruckheimer Films were aboard the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to shoot flight deck operations. In mid-February 2019, Cruise and the production crew were sighted on board USS Theodore Roosevelt at NAS North Island. In March, filming was completed at NAS Whidbey Island in Oak Harbor, Washington.

On June 19, 2019, Miles Teller revealed in an interview that he had finished filming two days earlier. Principal photography was scheduled until April 15, 2019, in San Diego, California; Lemoore, California; China Lake, California; Lake Tahoe, California; Seattle, Washington; and Patuxent River, Maryland. The movie was filmed in IMAX format using IMAX-Certified Sony Venice 6K Full Frame cameras.

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - Monica Barbaro
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) – Monica Barbaro

What was the original Top Gun movie about?

The ’80s classic follows US Naval Aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, a talented pilot with little regard for the rules and a close friendship with co-pilot Goose (played by Anthony Edwards).

He is recruited to an elite fighter school, where he clashes with fellow student Iceman (Val Kilmer) in the race to win the coveted Top Gun trophy. Oh, and he starts to fall for the beautiful instructor, Charlie (Kelly McGillis), as well.

Top Gun: Maverick Movie Poster (2022)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Monica Barbaro, Charles Parnell, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, Bashir Salahuddin, Jay Ellis, Raymond Lee, Lyliana Wray
Screenplay by: Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie
Production Design by: Jeremy Hindle
Cinematography by: Claudio Miranda
Film Editing by: Eddie Hamilton, Chris Lebenzon
Costume Design by: Marlene Stewart
Set Decoration by: Andrew McCarthy, Jan Pascale
Art Direction by: Andrew Bennett, Jared Patrick Gerbig, A. Todd Holland
Music by: Harold Faltermeyer, Hans Zimmer
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense action, and some strong language.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: May 27, 2022 (United States)

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