‘Top Gun: Maverick’ can be seen out of competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

36 years after the arrival in theaters of ‘Top Gun. Idols of the air’, we can finally see what has become of the US Navy pilot played by Tom Cruise. It has not been an easy road, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has been delaying its premiere since the pandemic began. Now, it seems that its launch is not going to be postponed any longer and it can also be seen out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

According to Deadline, the film will be screened in a special screening during the event, which this year celebrates its 75th anniversary, despite the fact that scheduling problems from the studio and the protagonist himself could have been about to ruin the agreement. The Festival will take place from May 17 to 28, but the source clarifies that its world premiere in San Diego will take place even earlier. His arrival in commercial theaters would take place on May 27. Paramount has not yet made an official statement.

The list of films the festival is expected to offer out of competition includes Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’, George Miller’s ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’, David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’ and Disney’s ‘Lightyear’. Pixar.

In the sequel to ‘Top Gun’ we will see Maverick (Cruise) in a very different situation than the one he aspired to at the beginning of the first installment. He is not an admiral, nor does he have all the medals and honors that he could have achieved with his talent for piloting. Instead, he stays at the rank of captain, working to train other wannabes and pushing himself to the limits as a test pilot. Rounding out the cast is Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Jean Louisa Kelly, Miles Kelles and Val Kilmer, who reprises his role as Iceman.

delays and more delays

According to Paramount’s first schedule, the film should have hit the public on June 24, 2020. Due to the pandemic, it jumped to December 23. However, it was not possible then either and it was moved to July 2 of last year and then to November 19. It seems that the date of May 27 is finally the final one and we will not have to wait any longer.

Something similar has happened with another film starring Tom Cruise: ‘Mission Impossible 7’. Both the seventh and eighth parts of the franchise have had to postpone their releases until July 14, 2023 and June 28, 2024 respectively.