It’s July of 2019. You’ve just opened The Escapist to read the brilliant words of its talented and ridiculously good-looking staff, and there you see the first trailer for Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to Top Gun with Tom Cruise again starring. You think you’re kind of excited to see it a few months down the road when it releases. You sweet, sweet, innocent fool. Here, in the year 2022, is a new trailer for Top Gun: Maverick.
Much like No Time to Die, Top Gun: Maverick has had a few starts and stops in its marketing thanks to being delayed due to COVID-19. That means that a lot of the stuff in the new 2022 Top Gun: Maverick trailer isn’t all that new. We’d already seen Miles Teller with his Goose-style mustache as he takes on the role of Goose’s son Lt. Bradley Bradshaw and comes into conflict with Cruise, returning as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. And we’d seen a lot of the high-flying stunts that the production went to painstaking ends to actually do in actual really fast jet planes with actually Tom Cruise in them. Still, it is hard not to be excited by the trailer, both from a nostalgia standpoint and the fact that those jet sequences look really cool.
The plot of the film, aside from being an excuse to watch sexy people once again play sports on a beach, sees Maverick working as a test pilot for the Navy while he refuses to be promoted and thus grounded. However, the military forces him to train the best pilots they have in order to go on a special mission that no living pilot has ever seen. The end result is that Maverick must face his past and a final mission “that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.” Wait… are they going to kill Maverick? Given Cruise’s name is almost as big as the film title in some of the title treatments, probably not, but it’s fun they pretend.
Top Gun: Maverick will finally release in theaters on May 27, 2022.
