Fans of Top Gun, the 1986 classic starring Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis, are eagerly awaiting the release of Top Gun: Maverick.

It will not star McGillis, for reasons she has explained, but will star Cruise and some other familiar faces.

I really shouldn’t spoonfeed you like this, or else you’ll never learn, but here’s the trailer one more time.

Jets, loud noises, manly things – go!

June 26 is the slated release date, before you ask.

We may as well show you the second trailer, too, which came out in mid-December while we were on holiday:

To further drum up interest, Paramount Pictures released a new batch of photos this week, introducing some of the new pilots.

More from Mashable, starting with a general overview of the plot:

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” 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: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”.

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.

Let’s take a closer look at Teller as ‘Rooster’:

A fine ‘tache.

Right up the top of the story is ‘Fanboy’, played by Danny Ramirez, and below is Monica Barbaro as ‘Phoenix’:

It would appear that the theme of the promo shoot was ‘stare pensively off to the side’.

Here comes ‘Hangman’, played by Glen Powell:

Jay Ellis is ‘Payback’:

He never got the memo and stared straight at the camera.

Finally, there has to be a ‘goofy’ kind of character in these things – enter Lewis Pullman as ‘Bob’:

Shame, they couldn’t even make up a cool name for the guy.

Hangman, Rooster, Phoenix, Payback … Bob?

Doesn’t seem fair.

[source:mashable]