Top Gun: Maverick: Everything we know about the movie so far

Get ready to feel the need for speed all over again. After years of rumors, Top Gun: Maverick is officially flying into theaters more than three decades since the 1986 film premiered. Original star Tom Cruise is returning for the sequel, and he won’t be the only familiar face in the film.

We got our first, official trailer for the movie in July 2019, and a second trailer arrived in mid-December. With Maverick currently scheduled to hit theaters in June 2020, here’s everything we know about the Top Gun sequel so far.

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Originally scheduled to hit theaters in July 2019, Top Gun: Maverick had its premiere pushed back almost a year by Paramount Pictures. The studio eventually announced a June 26, 2020, release date for the film, only to push it up to June 24 in early March.

Top Gun: Maverick

The June 24 release date follows Paramount’s trend of releasing some of its biggest films on a Wednesday, which was the case for many of the Transformers movies and the studio’s other big movies.

Super Bowl spot

Paramount released a new, pulse-pounding TV spot during Super Bowl LIV. The high-octane, stressful trailer teases Maverick’s fate as a voice-over explains that he is potentially facing court-martial and a dishonorable discharge. This is interspersed with Maverick’s heavy breathing as he pilots a fighter jet at death-defying speeds.

New photos
In conjunction with a new interview with Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, Entertainment Weekly has obtained new images from the upcoming sequel to the 1986 action hit.

In the images, we see some of the new hot-shot pilots that Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell will help maximize their skills. Unlike in the first movie, these pilots are already graduates of the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (a.k.a. Top Gun). According to Kosinski, “In our film, these are all Top Gun graduates who are coming back for a special training detachment — which is another aspect of Top Gun where they can go back for specialized training after they’ve already graduated. They’re at a different level of experience than in the first film.”

Check out the new images on EW’s Twitter:

Actors pushed to the limit

A behind-the-scenes featurette shows how director Joseph Kosinski staged some of the fighter pilot footage and how physically grueling the work was for the actors. Tom Cruise and other Top Gun: Maverick cast members look to be deeply uncomfortable or even ready to vomit in the footage.