Top Gun: Maverick no longer feels the need for quite as much speed. Paramount has announced that the release date for the Tom Cruise sequel has shifted by almost an entire year, from July 12, 2019, to June 26, 2020.
According to Variety, the extra time will “give filmmakers the opportunity to work out the logistics of presenting flight sequences with new technology and planes.”
Since “presenting the flight sequences” was likely already something the filmmakers would have thought about, we can probably just read the delay as any one of a dozen typical production problems. Big set-backs like this are never usually a good sign – and they can often trigger a recasting as schedules start to stack up – but any extra time given to an effects-driven action movie is a good thing in the long run.
Oblivion and Tron director Joseph Kosinski is still at the helm, with Cruise and Val Kilmer returning alongside a new cast led by Miles Teller, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Connelly.
