Kosinski On “Top Gun: Maverick” Themes – Dark Horizons

Judging from the trailer for “Maverick,” it looks as though Tom Cruise’s character Pete Mitchell hasn’t changed that much since the original 1986 film.
The new one will reportedly address that according to director Joseph Kosinski who tells Empire that like the original it will be a ‘rite of passage’ style film – albeit at a different point in the character’s life. This will include Mitchell having to deal with things from his past which he must confront and reconcile:
“In so many ways he’s still the guy that we remember from the first Top Gun. He keeps that old Ninja under a tarp in the hangar and still wears those Ray-Ban aviators. He’s the best at what he does, and he’s given his whole life to aviation.
But that has come as a personal cost, and Maverick has to confront some things from his past and reconcile with them. It’s a rite-of-passage story, much like the first film was. But this is a man now at a different stage of life.”
In the original, Maverick was a young hotshot Navy pilot forced to grapple with the consequences of his reckless actions. The sequel sees him training a new batch of pilots, including Miles Teller’s trainee ‘Rooster’ – the son of Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw who died in the original.
Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer co-star in the film which is slated to hit cinemas on December 23rd.

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