First Event Announcement at Cannes Film Festival: Tom Cruise returns to Cruise for the first time in 30 years to present Top Gun Maverick on May 18, 2022, a week before the film’s national release.
After many delays, the inevitable take-off for Top Gun 2! This sequel, 36 years after the first Top Gun, will be the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The general delegate of the festival Thierry Fremo confirmed this information at a press conference this morning.
“Confirmed by Thierry Fremo: Top Gun Maverick, a sequel to the 1986 cult film starring Tom Cruise as aviator Pete Mitchell, will premiere in Cannes on May 25 in cinemas in France and in the US in May. 27! “
This is the announcement of the first event of 2022 at the Cannes Film Festival, about which very little is known at this time. Neither the opening film nor the president of the jury has yet been revealed.
The presentation of this film, which is scheduled for May 18, the day after the opening and a week before the national release of the film, promises a special red carpet led by Tom Cruise (whose presence has been confirmed), Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly. By the way, without forgetting the director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion, Tron).
Tom Cruise did not return to Cannes for 30 years without a competition for Ron Howard’s film Horizons, in which he responded to Nicole Kidman.
Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise on the red carpet in 1992.
The sequel, titled Top Gun Maverick, looks like this: After being one of the best fighter pilots in the United States Navy for more than thirty years, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, nicknamed Tom Cruise, continues to cross its borders. The test pilot refuses to raise the rank because it forces him to cancel the flight.
Originally announced for the summer of 2019, Joseph Kosinski’s film was first postponed until the summer of 2020, when the actor actually learned to fly a fighter plane, then in the summer of 2021 due to a corovirus pandemic. Korovirus and finally in the fall of 2021.
Other films have not yet been announced or confirmed at the Cannes Film Festival. Elvis remains a rumor for the time being, but we will hear about the need for selection on April 14th. On this day, a traditional press conference will be held, during which the most expensive competition of the largest film festival in the world will be presented.
But another expected announcement was made this morning regarding the Cannes ceremony: We now know who will be the mistress of the opening and closing of the event. This will be Virgin Efira. It replaces Doria Tilier, who took over the position in 2021.
It is noteworthy that for the first time in 30 years, the festival will be broadcast not on CANAL + group antennas, but on France Télévisions and Brut, for the combined and unprecedented coverage of the festival’s official partners. The social network Tik Tok has also signed an important partnership with the event.
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