Tom Cruise Is Back As Maverick in First Top Gun 2 Photo
Marissa G. Muller
WMay 31, 2018
It's been 32 years since Tom Cruise last suited up to play Maverick in Top Gun, but you'd never tell that from the new promo photo taken on set of the sequel.
While Cruise himself has undergone quite an evolution, Maverick is still making the same old joke. In the first photo from Top Gun: Maverick, which Cruise shared on Twitter, the pilot can't escape his most famous line "Feel the need."
One thing that has changed within the Top Gun universe, however, is the stakes. The upcoming sequel is aiming to reflect the world we live in. While the plot has yet to be officially made public, sequel director Joseph Kosinski revealed last year to comingsoon.net, “The Navy is very different now than it was in 1986. It’s just a different world now, so you can’t remake the first movie. It has to adapt, [but] I certainly want to re-create the experience of that movie, which gives you a front seat into the world of naval aviation and what it’s like to be in a fighter jet.”
Kosinski has said that he will be taking full advantage of drone capabilities, adding, "On Only the Brave I was able to make a movie with very little CGI to try to capture as much as I can in-camera as possible, and that will certainly be my method on Top Gun as well."
As for Iceman? He still has "the moves" and is ready for the sequel.
