Festivals - Cannes 2022: Top gun - Maverick: planes fly over the Palais des Festivals for the European Premiere

By Mulder, Cannes, Palais des festival, 18 may 2022

An exceptional film, an exceptional ascent of the steps. For the first time in its history, the Patrouille de France, the flagship of the Air Force and Space, flew over the Cannes Film Festival.  Eight Alpha Jets crossed the sky of the Croisette at more than 600km/h on Wednesday, May 18, during Tom Cruise's visit to the Cannes Film Festival. Accompanied by the whole team of the film including Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Miles Teller, Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski, the actor/producer came to present the European premiere of Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick is an American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger and written by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer. It is the sequel to Top Gun (1986). It stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris, with Cruise and Val Kilmer reprising their roles from the first film. 

Synopsis : 
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.

Top Gun: Maverick
Directed by Joseph Kosinski
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger
Written by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, Eric Warren Singer
Based on Characters by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.
Starring  Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris
Music by Harold Faltermeyer and Hans Zimmer
Cinematography : Claudio Miranda
Edited by Chris Lebenzon
Production company : Skydance Media, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, TC Productions, Tencent Pictures
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date : May 25 2022 (France), May 27 2022 (United States)

Photos : Copyright Paramount Pictures 

(Source : press release)