One of our favorite bits from the post-shutdown phase of the pandemic was returning to movie theaters for, say, Spiral or Cruella, and discovering that, at the theater’s concession stand, the folks at your local AMC were still using cups and popcorn bags advertising the release of Top Gun: Maverick… in May 2020. If No Time to Die and Morbius are the leaders of the pack when it comes to delays, Joseph Kosinski’s sequel to Tony Scott’s ’80s classic is in a pretty close third place. But guess what, nerds? It’s actually fucking coming out, and Tom Cruise is ready to lecture you about how you’ve got the settings on your TV wrong once again. Paramount dropped a brand-new trailer for the film on Tuesday, and it rocks pretty hard.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis:
“After more than 30 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 Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: ‘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.“
Top Gun: Maverick will FINALLY hit theaters on May 27, so get your tanning oil and volleyball ready: It’s time to get back to playin’ with the boys over Memorial Day Weekend. If there’s not a new Kenny Loggins song on the soundtrack, we’ll riot. Well, we’ll actually probably just write a strongly-worded article and not do much else. But that’s a threat, Viacom! (Not really.)