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For 35 years we’ve felt the need, the need for speed. Given the three-decade wait for Tom Cruise to return as Navy pilot Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in a Top Gun sequel, its further delay due to the pandemic has been especially unfortunate. But our anticipation has only grown, fuelled by those trailers, leaning into the music and iconography, and offering hair-raising glimpses of Cruise pulling eight Gs as he barrels through the sky for real. 

"It really puts you inside that airplane," producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells Total Film. "It’s unbelievable. You feel it. I get excited every time I watch these aerial sequences. They’re so spectacular. The Navy was really helpful. We had some of their best pilots working with us. They helped come up with ideas and worked with Tom."

Plot-wise, Maverick is still living up to his call sign, his disdain for authority preventing him from rising up the ranks. We’ll join him just as he’s offered a teaching post at – you guessed it – the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, aka Top Gun, where he must train up a new generation of plucky, puff-chested pilots for a kamikaze real-world mission. Oh, and one of the newbies just so happens to be Rooster (Miles Teller), the son of Maverick’s gone-but-never-forgotten BFF Goose. 

"We try to stay true to the character of Maverick, and take you on his ride, at this point in his career and his life," says Bruckheimer. "So I think it’s really true to the first one. There is nostalgia, obviously, because of the music – we’re using the Top Gun theme, obviously. So it’s certainly still nostalgic. Anybody who’s looked at the first one... their heads will roll back to 34 years ago, 35 years ago

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