It seems like Top Gun: Maverick has been in the works for countless years but with the release of a new trailer and a poster we can finally look forward to its release on 27th May 2022.

And yes it’s important that we specify not only the day and month, but also the year, because this movie was originally planned to come out on 12th July 2019. It was originally delayed for extra work to be done with the flying, but then the pandemic happened.

With the movie now on the horizon, this latest trailer gives us a look into the main thrust (heh) of this story. Maverick is brought in to train new fighter pilots at the behest of Iceman who is now an Admiral and the Commander of the US Pacific Fleet,.

Included in these trainees is the son of Goose played by Miles Teller. We have to point out how hilarious it is that in-universe father and son seem to share the exact same moustache. Maybe it’s passed down through the family, like a watch.

The trailer doesn’t give us any more real specifics outside of this, not even revealing what the antagonistic force is. Characters mention some threat and we see American jets being shot down, but it’s not clear who or what this force is.

The trailer spends a lot of time with the most important character, the jets. We get a lot of glamour shots of these machines and it’s clear that this movie has experienced so many delays so this spectacle can be seen in theatres.

“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,'” reads the official description of the movie.

“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.”

Together with this trailer we also get a rather bland poster of Cruise with a jet in the background.

Interestingly there seems to be two versions of this poster floating around. The one we were sent in a press release – see below – has the 27th May 2022 release date on the bottom. Another version instead says “coming soon”.

The version without the date is likely preferable if there’s yet another delay.