Deadline is reporting that Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media’s Top Gun sequel Top Gun: Maverick has filled out its supporting cast with the addition of seven new faces. Joining the Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) directed film, which was recently delayed a year, are Kara Wang (Good Trouble), Jack Schumacher (Empire), Greg Tarzan Davis (Chicago P.D.), Jake […]
Top Gun: Maverick adds The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto
Another pilot will be suiting up for Top Gun: Maverick. Deadline has reported The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto has joined the film alongside Miles Teller (Whiplash) and the returning Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. Jacinto is set to play a pilot named Fritz. The anticipated sequel will see Teller as Goose’s grown-up son who follows in his […]
Top Gun: Maverick pushed back a year as Terminator 6, Sonic the Hedgehog and A Quiet Place 2 get new dates
THR is reporting that Paramount Pictures has shuffled the release dates for a number of its big upcoming movies, as well as dating the follow-up to this year’s hit horror A Quiet Place. The Tom Cruise-headlined Top Gun: Maverick has been pushed back a year, and is now scheduled for take off on June 26th […]
Top Gun: Maverick casting breakdown reveals new call signs
With production on Top Gun: Maverick set to resume this September, The Hollywood Reporter has got its hands on a casting breakdown which reveals the call signs for the new recruits set to join Tom Cruise’s Maverick and Val Kilmer’s Iceman at the Top Gun school – including the likes of Phoenix, Slayer, Bob, Warlock, […]
Top Gun: Maverick adds Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Lewis Pullman
Top Gun: Maverick isn’t done with its castings just yet. After signing on several actors yesterday, Deadline has revealed that Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Ed Harris (Westworld) and Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale) have now been added to the star-studded sequel. There is no word on who they will be playing, but they […]
Top Gun 2 adds Leave No Trace’s Thomasin McKenzie to its impressive cast
The volleyball roster is growing for Paramount’s Top Gun sequel, with the announcement that Leave No Trace’s Thomasin McKenzie is set to join the already impressive ensemble on Top Gun: Maverick. Deadline announced that McKenizie, who was spectacularly good in Debra Granik’s film-of-the-year contender (read our ★★★★★ review), joins Charles Parnell (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Bashir Salahuddin (Glow), […]
Glen Powell heads into the danger zone with Top Gun: Maverick role
He may have lost out on the part of Goose’s son to Miles Teller (Whiplash), but actor Glen Powell (The Expendables 3) has now found himself cast in a different role in the upcoming Top Gun sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Details of Powell’s role are being kept under wraps, but the actor will join the […]
Jennifer Connelly joins Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick
It looks like we may have our second new cast addition for Top Gun: Maverick, with Variety reporting that Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly has joined the sequel to the 1986 classic. According to the site, Connelly will portray the female lead, a single mother who runs a bar near the air force base where Tom Cruise’s […]
Miles Teller will play Goose’s son in Top Gun: Maverick
Last week there was a report that Tom Cruise, Joseph Kosinski, Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison had begun meeting with several young actors to play the role of Goose’s grown-up son in Top Gun: Maverick. After several screen tests and deliberation, it seems that the Cruise and Kosinski have now settled on an actor to play the […]
Nicholas Hoult, Miles Teller and Glen Powell wanted for Goose’s son in Top Gun: Maverick
Despite the fact that it is gearing up for production, the long-awaited Top Gun sequel Top Gun: Maverick is yet to cast one of its major roles – that of Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s former wingman Goose. According to THR, director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) and producers Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison […]