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Given that Top Gun: Maverick not only grossed over $1 billion but is largely credited with saving the movie theater business, it was a matter of when, not if, a sequel was green-lit.
That when came earlier this year, when it was reported in January that Paramount Pictures was officially developing a sequel to the hit Tom Cruise film.
Top Gun: Maverick has proven to be a pivotal film in Glen Powell’s career, as it helped launch the 35-year-old Texan to the A-list status that he now enjoys. He’s also now buddies with Cruise, as evidenced by not only his appearance at the premiere of Twisters but the way in which he’s seemingly anointed Powell as his heir apparent.
During a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Powell says that he “has a [start] date” but that he would “absolutely not” share any more details about the film.
Since his scene-stealing turn as Lieutenant Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Top Gun: Maverick , Powell has starred in the films Devotion, Hit Man, Anyone But You, and Twisters.
Alongside Cruise and Powell, Top Gun: Maverick also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris and Val Kilmer. Top Gun: Maverick is now streaming on Paramount+.
Below, you can find both the official synopsis for Top Gun: Maverick — in which Powell is the third or fourth lead, something that will surely change in the sequel — and his appearance on Happy Sad Confused with Twisters co-star Daisy Edgar Jones.
“After more than thirty 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.”