At this point Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick must be running on fumes having been stuck in a pandemic related holding pattern looking for a release window since the summer of 2020, but now it appears that the landing strip marshallers (those guys with the table tennis bats who wave in a plane) are guiding Tom Cruise’s blockbuster sequel towards the French Riviera and this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Deadline reports that the Joseph Kosinski directed film, which debuted its first trailer at San Diego Comic-Con way back in July 2019, will touchdown on the Croisette this May, although Paramount are yet to confirm the news. Sources said that the Cannes screening wouldn’t alter the intended world premiere, which is still expected to happen in San Diego before the world famous festival.
While Tom Cruise did his passionate best to keep that billboard smile on his face during the pandemic, Maverick has suffered the same fate as another of his blockbuster franchises, with Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 delayed to 2023 and 2024 respectively.
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After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”.
Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
Top Gun: Maverick features a cast including stars Tom Cruise (Maverick), Val Kilmer (Iceman), Jennifer Connolly (American Pastoral), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Ed Harris (Westworld), Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale), Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Charles Parnell (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Bashir Salahuddin (Glow), Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop), Danny Ramirez (The Gifted), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place), Jay Ellis (Insecure), Kara Wang (Good Trouble), Jack Schumacher (Empire), Greg Tarzan Davis (Chicago P.D.), Jake Picking (Blockers), Raymond Lee (Mozart in the Jungle), Jean Louisa Kelly (Ant-Man) and Lyliana Wray (Strange Angel).
Top Gun: Maverick is set for release on May 27th 2022.
