![]() Abrams isn’t involved the script is by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, with Joseph Kosinski (“Oblivion,” “TRON: Legacy”) taking over the director’s chair for the late Tony Scott. The bombing mission so resembles the climax of the first “Star Wars” that it’s something of a surprise that Cruise’s onetime collaborator J.J. The brass sends Maverick back to the Top Gun training facility in San Diego because of a touchy situation in a conveniently-never-named foreign country: Nation X has built a uranium-enrichment plant that’s about to go live, and someone has to fly low through a mountain range, drop a very precise bomb, then fly up a steep incline to escape. (Both Ed Harris and Jon Hamm are saddled with the roles of superior officers who metaphorically shake their fists in the air over Maverick’s rebellious ways.) In the film’s opening sequence, he gets to be a mensch to the people serving under him while simultaneously showing off his skills as a pilot and his penchant for rule-breaking and authority-defying. Thirty-six years after “Top Gun,” Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell he’s still in the Navy, having spurned both promotions (he’s still a Captain) and attempts to get him to retire. New ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Trailer Teases the Return of Val Kilmer’s Iceman (Video)
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