Audiences will get to feel the need for speed sooner than expected, with the release date of Top Gun: Maverick pushed up by the studio.
Instead of its expected weekend opening on Friday, June 26, Maverick will now open two days earlier, on Wednesday, June 24, in a strong vote of confidence from Paramount about the upcoming sequel's box office potential.
Taking place decades after the 1986 original film, the sequel has Pete "Maverick" Mitchell train a new generation of U.S. Navy fighter pilots. As the squadron faces a dangerous new mission, Maverick must contend with unresolved ghosts from his past when he is confronted with the son of his former wingman, Goose, who tragically died over thirty years ago while flying with Maverick.
Principal photography on the film commenced in June 2018, with Tom Cruise reprising his star-making role for the sequel. As part of his performance, Cruise performed some of his own flying in Navy fighter jets, including a low-altitude sequence.
Directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Manny Jacinto, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Danny Ramirez and Jay Ellis. The film arrives in theaters June 24.
(via Variety)