Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun: Maverick' to hit theaters after two-year delay due to coronavirus
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"Top Gun: Maverick" starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer will hit theaters after a two-year delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. The film will release on May 27.
And at the box office, "Top Gun" did nearly reach "Star Wars" proportions. It was the No. 1 film of 1986, a rocket-boosted, testosterone-fueled sensation that established the then 24-year-old Tom Cruise as a major star. It made Bomber jackets, Aviator sunglasses and playing homoerotic games of beach volleyball in jeans hip just as it did military service. In the jingoist Reagan-era '80s, "Top Gun" was about as American as it gets. The Navy set up recruitment tables in theaters. Enlistments soared.
If all of that – the go-go patriotism, a star-led blockbuster, magazines – sounds like a like time ago, it was. But almost four decades later, and after sitting on the shelf for two years due to the pandemic, "Top Gun: Maverick" is flying full throttle into a new world.