Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” will fly forward two days to release on June 24, giving the blockbuster a Wednesday start.Paramount Pictures made the announcement on Monday.
The “Top Gun” sequel will be set in a world of drone technology and will explore the end of the era of dogfighting, with Cruise portraying returning as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.“Oblivion” helmer Joseph Kosinski is directing the film, a sequel to the 1986 classic action film, from a script by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, and Eric Warren Singer.
Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the first movie with the late Don Simpson, will produce with Cruise and Skydance CEO David Ellison.“Only the Brave” star Miles Teller will play the son of Goose, Maverick’s co-pilot played by Anthony Edwards in the original movie, who’s Maverick’s new protege.Val Kilmer will reprise his role as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in the sequel.
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