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Top Gun 2 gets director and 2019 release date

July 1, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Back in May, Tom Cruise revealed that Top Gun 2 is finally moving ahead, and now we have word that Paramount has set a release date and director for the sequel to the 1986 box office smash.

The currently untitled Top Gun sequel (it seems that Top Gun: Maverick wasn’t official) is set to hit cinemas on July 12th 2019, one week after Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 and a week before Disney’s remake of The Lion King. Meanwhile, it is also confirmed that Cruise will be reuniting with his Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski, who had been previously rumoured to be front runner to helm the sequel.

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Plot details for Top Gun 2 are being kept under wraps, but it has been reported that the film will explore the death of the jet fighter program and the rise of unmanned drone technology.

Originally published July 1, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Top Gun 2, Top Gun: Maverick

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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