Top Gun 2 Trailer

What does the need for speed feel like in 2019? In a surprise appearance, Tom Cruise took the stage at Paramount Pictures’ Thursday morning Comic-Con panel to introduce footage from Top Gun: Maverick, his long-awaited follow-up to Top Gun. Regularly cited along with Jaws and Star Wars as one of the films that terraformed Hollywood into a blockbuster factory, the original Top Gun was a high-octane aerial drama that channeled Cruise’s stunt obsessions directly on screen. While a Top Gun 2 floated in Development Hell after director Tony Scott passed in 2012, Cruise handpicked Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) to punch the sequel to mach 5. With a 2020 release date locked and loaded, a flight many doubted would ever happen will finally take off. But in the wake of superhero bombast, fast and furious stunt shows, and Cruise’s own Mission: Impossible series (which Paramount commissioned back-to-back sequels for, after the success of Fallout), what kind of thrills can Top Gun: Maverick offer? The first trailer for the movie, which premiered at the panel, offers a little insight into Cruise and Joseph Kosinski’s vision. “Everything you see in this film is real. We’re working with the Navy. I wanted to give you an experience of being inside that aircraft.” The trailer is pure nostalgia peppered with plane stunts. The spot opens on a desert, with a jet test flying across a desert. Ed Harris’ voice-over kicks in, skewering Cruise’s Maverick for still doing his thing after 30 years. “You won’t retire. You refuse to die.” “It’s one of life’s mysteries, sir.” From there, the trailer takes off with the classic Top Gun score, and plenty of throwback moments. We see Maverick in the cockpit, taking off from an aircraft carrier, an angle you can only get if the actor is the one actually flying the damn thing. There’s Maverick motorcycling by planes in the sunset. There are Navy pilots drinking up a storm, then playing beach volleyball. The trailer checks all the boxes.


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