Top Gun: Maverick is the highly-anticipated sequel to the 1986 action film Top Gun, with many saying this is one of Tom Cruise’s best roles.
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played by 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 specialised mission, the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, played by 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.
The Maverick we meet in Top Gun: Maverick is still unmistakably the man you remember from the original movie, but he’s also very much a progression of how we last left him. When we meet Maverick again, he is working as a test pilot, pushing incredibly powerful, and occasionally temperamental, new cutting-edge flying machines to their limits for the Navy.
“It was very important to us that Maverick still be in the Navy. The Navy is really the only thing he’s ever known. The Navy is his family,” says screenplay writer Christopher McQuarrie.
“At the same time, Maverick has been in the Navy for over 30 years. Being a test pilot answered the question of how someone would stay in the Navy this long and remain where he is.
“Because what matters most to Maverick is that he always finds a way to fly.”
Top Gun: Maverick is now showing at Swan Hill Showbiz Cinemas.
