{"id":141370,"date":"2020-01-30T03:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T08:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=141370"},"modified":"2020-01-30T03:41:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T08:41:17","slug":"first-pic-of-jay-ellis-in-top-gun-maverick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/first-pic-of-jay-ellis-in-top-gun-maverick\/","title":{"rendered":"First Pic Of Jay Ellis In Top Gun: Maverick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paramount has released six newly released photos from Top Gun: Maverick<\/strong>, the highly-anticipated sequel starring Tom Cruise<\/strong>. The new pics highlight Miles Teller<\/strong> as Lt. Bradley \u2018Rooster\u2019 Bradshaw, Glen Powell<\/strong> as \u2018Hangman\u2019, Monica Barbaro<\/strong> as \u2018Phoenix\u2019, Lewis Pullman<\/strong> as \u2018Bob\u2019, Jay Ellis<\/strong> as \u2018Payback\u2019, and Danny Ramirez<\/strong> as \u2018Fanboy.\u2019<\/p>\n

Paramount Pictures will release\u00a0Top Gun: Maverick in theaters on\u00a0June 26, 2020.<\/p>\n

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Top Gun: Maverick is set in a world of drone technology and fifth-generation fighters along with exploring the end of the era of dogfighting. After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy\u2019s top aviators, Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: \u2018Rooster,\u2019 the son of Maverick\u2019s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka \u2018Goose\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.<\/p>\n

The film also stars Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashier Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis<\/strong>, and Ed Harris.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joseph Kosinski, who previously directed Cruise in Oblivion, will helm the sequel, with Peter Craig, Justin Marks and Eric Warren Singer penning the script.<\/p>\n

The original Top Gun was directed by Tony Scott and also starred Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards and Tom Skerritt. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for \u201cTake My Breath Away\u201d performed by Berlin. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it \u201cculturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\u201d<\/p>\n