It's been a year since Tom Cruise confirmed that a sequel to "Top Gun" was in the works, and after 12 long months of nail biting and patience testing, it appears that the movie has finally started filming. God bless us all!
We don't know much about "Top Gun: Maverick," except that Val Kilmer hasn't gotten an invite to join the cast yet. What is Maverick without Iceman? Nothing, that's what.
Cruise took to Instagram to commemorate the first day of filming, sharing a photo of himself as Navy pilot Pete Mitchell looking at a fighter jet in the distance. In true "Top Gun" fashion, the photo simply says "Feel The Need."
Like we said, we don't know a lot about "Maverick," except that Cruise will now have transitioned from being a flyboy pilot causing trouble to a flight instructor in the Navy (likely still causing trouble).
"It's going to be a competition film like the first one," Cruise said last summer. "It's going to be in the same vein and the same tone as the first [with] the need for speed and big, fast machines. There's gonna be jets."
"Top Gun: Maverick" is scheduled to hit theaters July 12, 2019.