Quendrith Johnson

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent

The wait is over; today Paramount released the new faces to accompany original franchise frontier Tom Cruise. The notables in the air include: Miles Teller (WHIPLASH), and more with the following Top Gun handles.

Miles Teller, Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, TGM from Paramount Pictures, Skydance & Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

Teller is Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw; Glen Powell is “Hangman.” Lewis Pullman (“Bob”) joins Jay Ellis as “Playback,” along with Dany Ramirez as “Fanboy.”

Monica Barbaro plays "Phoenix" in Top Gun: Maverick - Paramount Pictures, Skydance & Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

Monica Barbaro, the first female addition to the flight roster, is “Phoenix.” In the reprise of the Jerry Bruckheimer franchise, based on characters creations of Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., Cruise is in the instructor role.

Hollywood veteran Jennifer Connelly also enlists in this one, along with Ed Harris. The script is written by Ehren Kruger, and Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) from the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE franchise. The release date is currently set for June 26, 2020.

Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes at TOP GUN: MAVERICK 2020

Here’s the Official Plot 411 from Paramount

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.

Glen Powell as “Hangman” in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

DIRECTED BY: Joseph Kosinski EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY: Tommy Harper, Chad Oman, Mike Stenson, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger PRODUCED BY: Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison BASED ON CHARACTERS CREATED BY: Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr.

Jay Ellis plays "Payback" in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

WRITTEN BY: Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie

CAST: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis with Ed Harris.

Danny Ramirez is "Fanboy" in Top Gun: Maverick from Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.[

*CREDITS ARE NOT FINAL AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE* Paramount Pictures and Skydance and Jerry Bruckheimer Films Present In Association with Tencent Pictures - A Don Simpson / Jerry Bruckheimer Production - A Joseph Kosinski Film

Headliner Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick”

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