Or Top Gun 2 or Top Gun: Maverick(whatever you want to call it). If you were like me, when ya first heard they were doing another chapter of Top Gun ya thought-seriously?! Yes, it has been 34 years since the last one so some of you weren’t even around when the first one came out. The next question you had was-“what is the plot going to be? Is it just a remake?” The answer to the second part is no. This is a new chapter in the story. The answer to the first question is a little more difficult. According to empireonline.com/movies -We know it’s 34 years later, with Cruise’s Pete Mitchell overseeing a new class of Top Gun candidates drawn from naval aviation. One of his trainees? Bradley Bradshaw, none other than the son of Maverick’s old buddy Goose, who died last time around(spoiler!). He’ll be played by Whiplash’s Miles Teller.
In this drone-happy world, the style of crewed plane dogfighting Maverick excelled in is slowly being replaced by remote controlled warfare. “The Navy is very different now than it was in 1986. Back then, they hadn’t been in any war for 15 or 20 years at that point.The tone of that movie and what those guys were doing was very different. Now, the Navy’s been at war for 20 years. It’s just a different world now, so you can’t remake the first movie. It has to adapt. That being said, I certainly want to recreate 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. The approach is going to be appropriate for the times we live in” says director Joseph Kosinski. Check out the trailer below and dig the nod to the original Top Gun!
