Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has returned. After numerous delays due to COVID-19, Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick now has a brand new trailer.
Pete is now working at the same Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program from the original Top Gun (1986) film in the upcoming film. As he trains a new batch of TOPGUN graduates, he realizes how much has changed in the last 30 years.
“Let me be perfectly honest, Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell: you were not my first choice.” You’ve been summoned by Admiral Kazansky, alias Iceman. “He appears to believe you still have something to offer the Navy,” says Jon Hamm’s character. In the trailer, Cyclone informs him. “I have no idea what that is.”
Here’s the official logline:
After more than 30 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 TOPGUN 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.