‘My dad believed in you’: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ trailer released

A sequel 36 years in the making, the latest “Top Gun: Maverick” trailer was released Tuesday morning and in a matter of weeks, fans of the action film series will once again go into the “Danger Zone.”

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In the latest look at the upcoming sequel to the original “Top Gun” film, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise, faces off with the son of his radar intercept officer, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw — who was played in the first film by Anthony Edwards and whose character was killed.

Bradley Bradshaw, Goose’s son, is played by Miles Teller.

While Maverick himself is still the pilot whose “ego is writing checks your body can’t cash,” the Navy and the world have changed a lot over the past 30 years, AV Club reported.

At one point Bradshaw tells Maverick, “My dad believed in you. I’m not gonna make the same mistake” after Cruise’s character is selected to teach the new class at TOPGUN for a “mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.”

Cruise’s Maverick was suggested as the new instructor by his former rival, now-Admiral Tom Kazansky, call sign Iceman.

Iceman is once again played by Val Kilmer and appears in the film not only in the photo featured in the trailer but also in person.

“Top Gun: Maverick” also stars Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis and Ed Harris, Entertainment Weekly reported.

It will hit theaters on May 27, Deadline reported.

The movie had been delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AV Club reported.

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