The original movie - which also starred Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan and Val Kilmer - followed a rookie Maverick as he attended the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons school. “Stylistically, it’s going to be the same.” “We’re going to have the same tone that we had from the first,” the Jerry Maguire star told Access Hollywood in June 2017, revealing the official title. The need for speed! After much anticipation from both the cast and fans alike, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick is finally hitting theaters this month.Ĭruise, 59, who played pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in 1986’s Top Gun, announced back in summer 2017 that a sequel was in the works.
