Tom Cruise is set to relive his glory days by reprising his role as top fighter pilot Maverick for the long-awaited Top Gun sequel.
Top Gun: Maverick is set to see Cruise’s cocky fighter pilot Pete Mitchell return to action alongside Iceman actor Val Kilmer.
The trailer, which Cruise unveiled at San Diego Comic Con , will feature Miles Teller as Bradley Bradshaw, son of Maverick’s best friend Goose (played by Anthony Edwards), who died during a training exercise in the original film.
In the new teaser, Maverick is seen returning to train new pilots, including Bradshaw.
“My dad believed in you. I’m not going to make the same mistake,” Bradshaw tells him.
John Hamm will also be starring as Vice Admiral Cyclone, who will butt heads with Maverick over the course of the film.
“Let me be perfectly blunt: you were not my first choice,” Cyclone tells him.
“You are here at the request of Admiral Kazansky (Iceman).
“He seems to think you have something left to offer the Navy. What that is I can’t imagine.”
The film’s initial synopsis hints that plenty of trouble is in store for Maverick.
“After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him,” it reads.
“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 (Miles Teller), 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 became a cultural icon when it was released in 1986, and catapulted Cruise’s budding career into the stratosphere, cementing his reputation as an action hero.
Though it was initially set to be released in 2019, it will now be released in cinemas on May 27.
