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The cast list for Top Gun: Maverick has got even bigger

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Top Gun: Maverick is getting increasingly ready for take off.

The sequel to everyones favourite US Navy pilot movie is very much in the works, with Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer reprising their roles as Maverick and Iceman respectively.

Its 32 years on from the original films release, and Maverick will also usher in a ton of new faces into the Top Gun world – with the likes of Whiplash star Miles Teller and Jennifer Connolly having recently signed up to the project.

A whole host of new names have now been added to the cast of Maverick, including rising New Zealand star Thomasin McKenzie (who will play the daughter of Connollys character), Transformers actor Charles Parnell (wholl play an admiral) and GLOWs Bashir Salahuddin, wholl be an engineer.

Three of the new Top Gun pilots have also been confirmed to be Insecures Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez (Assassination Nation), and Monica Barbaro (The Good Cop).

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Filming is already underway, with Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski helming the sequel – which is expected to come out on 12 July 2019.

Sharing a few details about the upcoming movie last year, Kosinski explained that the sequel to Top Gun would tackle the Navy of today head-on.

The Navy is very different now than it was in 1986. Back then, they hadnt been in any war for 15 or 20 years at that point, the director remarked.

Now, here in 2017, the Navys been at war for 20 years. Its just a different world now, so you cant remake the first movie. It has to adapt.

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