It’s been almost 34 years since Top Gun (1986) made Tom Cruise one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history. And now he’s back in Top Gun:Maverick. We don’t know if anyone was asking for this very belated sequel but it’s coming in 2020. Apparently this time he is the trainer, training a new batch of Top Gun fighter pilots and mentoring his friend’s son (Miles Teller). Yep Teller is playing the son of Anthony Edwards and we assume Meg Ryan. Will they make a cameo?
Let’s give the trailer the Yes, No, Maybe So treatment...
Yes
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I am very pro Miles Teller. Loved him in The Spectacular Now (2013) and Rabbit Hole (2010) and thought he gave the best performance in Whiplash (2014) so it’s exciting that he’s leading this film as Goose’s son, Rooster. These names though!!
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The younger pilots are played by up and comers we’d like to see more of. Glen Powell (Set It Up), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place) and Jay Ellis (Insecure)
No
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Top Gun was a ra ra Americana jingoistic film that could only come out and become a huge hit in the Reagan era. And I guess we are living in similar times when you think about who occupies the White House.
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Will the homoerotisim be back? We hope so though there’s scant evidence of it in this trailer.
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Who’s Jennifer Connelly playing? Hopefully not a supportive wife / girlfriend. And there doesn’t seem to be any other women. They should’ve made this a hybrid sequel of Top Gun and G.I.Jane and brought in Demi Moore alongside Cruise. The A Few Good Men (1992) reunion no one is expecting.
Maybe So
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Tom Cruise is lots of fun in the Mission: Impossible movies. Or is it just the movies themselves? He was magnetic in the 80s when the first film came out but will this late revist work? Based on the tanned look he’s sporting in his first reveal here we are dubious.
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Remember when Jon Hamm was trying to be a movie star? Those hopes were dashed after Million Dollar Arm (2014) and Keeping Up with The Joneses (2016) flopped. With this and Richard Jewell, where he plays an FBI agent, he seems to be finding a niche of playing supporting authority figures. Hopefully that turns into meaty supporting roles soon because we like looking at him.
What say you? Are you ready to fly into the danger zone?