Top Gun: Maverick
Set it UpandScream Queensactor Glen Powell will join Tom Cruise and Miles Teller in the cast ofTop Gun : Maverick , the long - await sequel to the 1980s blockbusterTop Gun . Powell was originally up for the key function of Goose ’s son in the film , but ultimately lost out to Tellerafter an blanket hunt . However , the pic ’s producers like Powell so much that they found a different function for him to play , instead .
The originalTop Gunof path starred Cruise as Pete “ Maverick ” Mitchell , an ably - named loose shank Navy fighter pilot who spends the movie clashing with his superiors while romancing civilian flying teacher “ Charlie ” Blackwood ( Kelly McGillis ) to the strains of Berlin ’s top 40 hit " Take My Breath aside " . The sequel watch Maverick himself have on the function of flight of steps instructor , and one of his student turns out to be the Word of his old co - pilot " Goose " Bradshaw ( Anthony Edwards ) , who died in the original celluloid , will Maverick guilty conscience - ridden and ready to quit the Navy ( which he ultimately did not ) .
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After an extensive search , Whiplashstar Miles Teller at last wound up win the theatrical role of Goose ’s son Bradley , who goes by the call name " Riot . “Glen Powell and Nicholas Houltwere report to be the last two actors up against Teller before the call was made . Now , THRreports that Powell gets to be inTop Gun : Maverickanyway , in a theatrical role the details of which are being keep under wraps for the clock time - being . THRreports that Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount were so impressed with Powell that they not only decided to cast him , they ’re also beefing up his part .
Interestingly , Powell already has some experience work a hot - shot battler suspensor , having portrayed astronaut and former test pilot John Glenn in the Oscar - nominatedHidden Figures . Powell is perhaps best make love for playing Charlie Young in the Netflix romantic comedySet It Up , co - star Zoey Deutch , Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu . Powell also played Chad for 16 episodes of the Fox seriesScream Queens .
A soupcon about Powell ’s potential part inTop Gun : Maverickcan perhaps be gleanedfrom a fibre breakdownthat was describe last year . In addition to Goose ’s Word , named “ Wrigley ” in the dislocation , the paper also listed several other new manly characters set up to appear in the film . Among these is a lineament named “ Kansas ” , who is described as a “ competitive fellow with Southern spell to give up ” . The Texas native Powell sounds like a sodding peer for this particular role . Two other manful characters , appoint “ Otter ” and “ Shotgun ” , are also possible fits .
In addition to Cruise , Top Gun : Maverickwill beheadlined by Jennifer Connollyanda returning Val Kilmer . Joseph Kosinski is directing the moving picture from a script by Peter Craig , Justin Marks , Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz .
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