Val Kilmer Shares Throwback Original Top Gun Image With Tom Cruise
Val Kilmer shares a new throwback photo with Tom Cruise during their days of filming Top Gun. In less than two weeks, Top Gun: Maverick will finally hit theaters after several delays. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, theTop Gun sequel was more than 30 years in the making.
Released in 1986,Top Gun centers around Cruise's Pete «Maverick» Mitchell and his friend Nick «Goose» Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) as they're sent to TOPGUN — the US Navy's Fighter Weapons School in San Diego. There, they meet Kilmer's Tom «Iceman» Kazansky who immediately becomes Maverick's arch-rival. In the end, however, the two become good friends and flying partners. For Top Gun: Maverick, both Kilmer and Cruise are reprising their respectiveTop Gun roles. This is one of the most exciting things in the Kosinski-directed follow-up, and clearly, Maverick and Iceman's upcoming big-screen reunion has Kilmer also feeling nostalgic.
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Taking to his official Twitter account, Kilmer shared an image of him and Tom Cruise with the core cast of Top Gun and their Navy advisors. Edwards and Tom Skerritt, who played Viper in the 1986 film, are some of the other notable faces in the photo. Check out the snap below:
here's a very special throwback from the OG Top Gun. Pictured here are the actual Navy Airforce Top Gun Advisors! pic.twitter.com/5G7IaFPoXd
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Kilmer and Cruise are two of the few original Top Gun cast members returning for Top Gun: Maverick. When asked about the film's focus on new characters, Kosinski explained that it's because he wants the sequel to be more forward-looking than backward, hence the introduction of a crop of brand new TOPGUN trainees. That
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