Joseph Kosinski Says He’s Keeping Pace on Top Gun: Maverick Work Despite Delay

Top Gun: Maverick has been pushed out by five months, but that hasn’t changed how Joseph Kosinski is working on it. Kosinski, who is directing the long-awaited Top Gun sequel, spoke with ComicBook.com for a new interview and discussed the film being pushed from June 24th to December 23rd.

“We’re sticking to our schedule and finishing the movie just as if it were coming out on its original release date,” Kosinski said. “Luckily, I’m in the home stretch of post-production where, despite all the restrictions of how you can work now, I’m able to continue doing my job and finish the movie, which is pretty amazing. If I were in any other phase of the project, it would be hard to do that, but because I’m in the tail-end of post, I’m able to do everything I need to to be able to to finish it.”

He continued, “We’re sticking to our schedule and finishing the movie and just holding it for six months, which is such an interesting thing to do but it’s the right decision because this is a movie that people need to see on the big screen and if there’s no big screen, then you don’t want to release this movie. We want this to be a shared experience on as big a screen as possible.”

The film stars Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell & Val Kilmer.

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.