With production on Top Gun: Maverick set to resume this September, The Hollywood Reporter has got its hands on a casting breakdown which reveals the call signs for the new recruits set to join Tom Cruise’s Maverick and Val Kilmer’s Iceman at the Top Gun school – including the likes of Phoenix, Slayer, Bob, Warlock, Cyclone, Lardo, Payback, Fanboy, Harvard, Yale, Viking and Coyote.
Check them out here, along with character descriptions:
Top Gun: Maverick is being directed by Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) and sees the returning Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer joined in the cast by Miles Teller (Whiplash), Jennifer Connolly (American Pastoral), Glen Powell (Hidden Figures), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Ed Harris (Westworld), Lewis Pullman (Bad Times at the El Royale), Charles Parnell (Transformers: Age of Extinction), Bashir Salahuddin (Glow), Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop), Danny Ramirez (The Gifted) and Jay Ellis (Insecure).
Top Gun: Maverick will take off on July 12th 2019.