Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick is the sequel to the 1986 original film starring Tom Cruise as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a top-tier pilot in the Navy. Thirty years after the original film's events, Maverick is asked to head up a section of the TOP GUN program to embark on a dangerous mission. Things become personal when the program includes the son of Maverick's late friend, forcing him to confront his past.
Top Gun: Maverick
- Director
- Joseph Kosinski
- Release Date
- May 27, 2022
- Cast
- Jennifer Connelly , Jake Picking , Raymond Lee , Tom Cruise , Lewis Pullman , Monica Barbaro , Miles Teller , Danny Ramirez , Val Kilmer , Manny Jacinto , Ed Harris , Glen Powell , Jon Hamm
- Writers
- Ashley Miller , Justin Marks , Peter Craig , Zack Stentz
- Runtime
- 130 minutes
- Franchise(s)
- Top Gun
- prequel(s)
- Top Gun
- Main Genre
- Action
- Franchise
- Top Gun
- Cinematographer
- Claudio Miranda
- Producer
- Jerry Bruckheimer, David Ellison, Don Granger, Dana Goldberg, Tom Cruise
- Production Company
- Skydance Media, Tencent Pictures, TC Productions, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
- Main Characters
- Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Penelope "Penny" Benjamin, Beau "Cyclone" Simpson, Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Robert "Bob" Floyd, Chester "Hammer" Cain
- Sfx Supervisor
- Scott R. Fisher
- Distributor
- Paramount Pictures
- Assistant Director
- Scott Robertson
Summary
Top Gun: Maverick is the long anticipated sequel to the original Top Gun, setting Tom Cruise back into the pilot suit of Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. Having served for thirty years as one of the top aviators in the Navy, Maverick continues his calling as a test pilot and dodges the attempted efforts of the higher-ups to promote him to a less active role. Soon he finds himself training a group of TOP GUN graduates for a unique mission - one of those recruits is a young man named Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller), who happens to be the son of his late friend Nick Bradshaw, aka Goose. Now Maverick and his new trainees will face off with ghosts from his own past as they embark on the most dangerous mission they've ever flown.
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