Top Gun: Maverick Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Ace pilot Maverick aims to show the relevance of good old fashioned pilots in today's high-tech, drone-centric war environment.

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Top Gun: Maverick.

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  Tom Cruise

  ... Pete Mitchell "Maverick"

  Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

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  Val Kilmer

  ... Iceman

  Song to Song, Red August

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  Miles Teller

  ... Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw

  The Gorge, Whiplash

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  Jennifer Connelly

  Alita: Battle Angel, Winter's Tale

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  Glen Powell

  ... Hangman

  The Running Man, Twisters

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  Jon Hamm

  Transformers One, Baby Driver

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  Ed Harris

  Love Lies Bleeding, The Dink

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  Monica Barbaro

  ... Phoenix

  A Complete Unknown, Crime 101

• L
  Lewis Pullman

  Thunderbolts*, Skincare

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  Charles Parnell

  Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, The Killer

• J
  Jay Ellis

  ... Payback

  A Boy, A Girl, A Dream, Freaky Tales

• B
  Bashir Salahuddin

  Miller’s Girl , The 24th

Crew Behind the Film

The Top Gun: Maverick behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Joseph Kosinski last directed Spiderhead and White Boy Rick. The film's writer Christopher McQuarrie last wrote Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Mission: Impossible - Fallout.

Director

Joseph Kosinski

Screenwriters

Christopher McQuarrie
Peter Craig
Justin Marks

Producers

Jerry Bruckheimer
Tom Cruise

Additional Information

All Trailers

Official Top Gun: Maverick movie trailers and clips.

Production Details

What we know about the Top Gun: Maverick movie production.

Key Facts

• The film has been celebrated by critics and audiences alike, receiving an A+ CinemaScore, and earning a 97% critics’ score and 99% audience score from Rotten Tomatoes. In addition to marking Tom Cruise’s biggest opening and highest-grossing film ever, it also opened domestically to the largest Memorial Day Weekend of all time; is Paramount Pictures’ highest-grossing domestic release ever; is the first movie ever to be #1 at the box office for both Memorial Day Weekend and Labor Day Weekend; and is the highest-grossing film for Skydance, one of the film’s producers, followed by Mission Impossible: Fallout (12/1/2022).
• Paramount Pictures today announced that Top Gun: Maverick will be re-released in theatres nationwide, including select premium large formats and IMAX, for a limited time, beginning December 2nd and running through December 15th. The film has to-date grossed over $716M domestically and over $770M internationally for a global cumulative of over $1.48B (12/1/2022).
• Miles Teller will play the son of the Goose character (from the original film, played by Anthony Edwards) and Maverick’s new protégé (Variety, 8/22/18).
• German composer Harold Faltermeyer, who created Top Gun's memorable synth score, will do the music (Hollywood Reporter, 6/6/18).
• Val Kilmer has said he’d like to return for the sequel in the role of Tom “Iceman” Kazanski (Variety, 6/30/17).
• Sequel to the 1986 film.

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