The long awaited Top Gun: Maverick screams into theaters this week after numerous COVID-19 related delays. Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer’s sequel to 1986’s cult classic love letter to Naval Aviation was set to come out in the fall of 2019 before the studio pushed it to ensure they had enough time to edit the intense flying sequences. The July 2020 release was pushed after the start of the pandemic, sliding right to December 2020 before moving to July 2021 and then November 2021 before landing on May 27, 2022.
It was worth the wait.
