After all of these years, there's still a huge need for speed.
More than three decades after the release of the blockbuster smash Top Gun, moviegoers can look forward to a brand-new sequel Top Gun: Maverick. And while the star himself Tom Cruise confirmed the news, fans are receiving more and more teases of the project. Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Lewis Pullman are set to join the cast that also includes Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly and Glen Powell.
"We're going to have the same tone as we had in the first movie. Stylistically, it's going to be the same. We're going to have the same score," Cruise previously shared with Access Hollywood. "We're going to have big fast machines. It's going to be a competition film like the first one."
Meanwhile, Hamm told Collider that the film uses "incredibly hi-def" technology, adding, "The aerial footage is mind-blowing."
"It's a very strange experience but it's been a wonderful experience as well," he continued. "It's basically getting the whole team back together. Unfortunately, [original director] Tony Scott is unavailable, but they've achieved a very similar vibe to the first one. I think it's gonna be, for the people who love the first movie I think it's gonna be very interesting to watch. It very much takes the story in a different direction. But I think for the new fans it's gonna be something very cool, too. I've seen some of the footage, it is out of this world."
Come May 2017, Cruise surprised fans on Australia's Sunrise that the film is happening with filming starting "probably in the next year." In May 2018, the actor shared the first photo from the upcoming movie on Twitter titled "#Day1."
he A-lister recalled flying in the F-14 for the original film and explained how he wanted actors who could handle that G-force for the new movie.
"Part of making this film is I wanted to really be able to shoot it practical, working with the Navy," he said. "I mean, incredible pilots—the greatest fighter pilots in the world. We had to figure out how we were going to get the cameras in there. We hired incredible actors—great cast, brilliant—but they also had to be able to fly in the airplane. So, we had to train them and then test to see can they sustain this kind of G's because some people can't fly this way."
