Huge blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick opens in cinemas nationwide on Friday, May 27.
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Story by: Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Cast: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis with Ed Harris and Val Kilmer.
Paramount Pictures and Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present A Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Production, A Joseph Kosinski Film, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick
After more than thirty 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 specialised mission, the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), callsign: 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.
About the production
On Friday September 7, 2018 Tom Cruise returned to Miramar, the military base where much of Top Gun was filmed 33 years previously, in the Spring of 1985.
He was there to undergo a full ASTC (Aviation Survival Training Curriculum), to qualify for the extensive flying sequences in U.S. Navy F/A 18s that he had personally insisted were essential to the making of its long awaited sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.
As he embarked on a training program unlike any other in film history, it was impossible to not note the parallels between Maverick and the person who plays him; two men constantly testing the limits of themselves and their profession. Two men also not averse to breaking the odd rule along the way, if that means pushing their craft further than anyone ever has before, exploring its possibilities, stretching its edges.
“I’d thought about a sequel to Top Gun for all these years,” says Cruise of only now returning, as actor and producer, to perhaps his most iconic ever role.
“People had asked for a sequel for decades. Decades! And the thing I said to the studio from the beginning was: ‘If I’m ever going to entertain this, we’re shooting everything practically. I’m in that F/A 18, period. So, we’re going to have to develop camera rigs. There’s going to be wind tunnels and engineering. It’s going to take a long, long time for me to figure it out.’
“And I wanted to work with Jerry (Bruckheimer). I wouldn’t do this movie without him in a million years. For years, people had said, ‘Can’t you shoot (the movie) with CGI?’ And I always said ‘That’s not the experience. I need to find the right story. And we’re going to need the right team. This movie is like trying to hit a bullet with a bullet. I’m not playing,’” Cruise said.
Competition
The PE Express, in conjunction with United International Pictures (UIP), is giving away a few Top Gun: Maverick hampers in celebration of the anticipated blockbuster releasing on May 27.
To enter, simply fill in the form below. The competition closes on Monday, May 30 at 10:00.
