ACTION STARS WHO WAITED FOR THE RED CLIMATE OF THE SAN DIGO AIRCRAFT
The world premiere of the long-awaited film Top Gun: Maverick has finally arrived. On Wednesday (May 4), a red carpet was laid aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway in San Diego, California, to lift the line. Actors Glenn Powell, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, John Hamm, and other A-listers came dressed to impress. But the franchise’s favorite Tom Cruise made the most explosive entrance.
MTV News correspondents Josh Horowitz, Dometti Pongo, and Simone Boyce hosted the inaugural event broadcast live on YouTube. And leveraged the streaming platform’s new live streaming feature to distract viewers from the 150 Paramount-related channels. They greet celebrities as they board the ship, and the American flag flutters.
Hamm recited one of his favorite lines from the 1986 original Top Gun, cheering the fans gathered around him.
In the film, Powell speaks of the shedding of “blood, sweat, tears – and vomit.”
After an exclusive preview of the new film, Cruz stormed in. The action hero, who has held a pilot’s license since 1994. And even designed the film’s flight plan, circled in a helicopter. When the plane landed, Cruz rose to applause from fans and his colleagues, producers, and directors.
He then sat down with Horowitz for a conversation in which he shared Top Gun’s legacy. “What the audience has been through for generations, I can’t even imagine,” he said. It was a fitting spark for a genuinely sensational film. Cruz reprises his character Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick. Where the original met him as a young, hard-working pilot, the sequel visits Mitchell as a seasoned pilot with more than 30 years of experience guiding a new generation of pilots. Summoned to a dangerous new mission. He is forced to come to terms with the ghosts of his past and face his deepest fears.
Finally released more than three decades after its predecessor and after several lengthy delays, Top Gun. Maverick hits theaters nationwide on May 27. On the same day, Interscope Records will release Music From the Motion Picture Top Gun. Maverick Collection, which will include “Hold My Land,” an original song by Lady Gaga that was first released on May 3.