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Top Gun: Maverick trailer shows Tom Cruise still feels need for speed

A trailer from San Diego Comic-Con shows the actor heading back into the danger zone.

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Watch this: Top Gun: Maverick trailer debuts at Comic-Con 2019

Paramount Pictures dropped a trailer for Top Gun: Maverick at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday. The film is a sequel to the 1986 smash Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise as a crack fighter pilot with a need for speed. 

Top Gun: Maverick

Tom Cruise is back in Top Gun: Maverick.

 Paramount Pictures

In the trailer, a Cruise weathered by more than three decades of service, is confronted by the fact that he can't get a promotion and refuses to retire. "You should be at least a two-star admiral by now. Yet here you are, captain," a uniformed and authoritative-looking Ed Harris tells him. "Why is that?"

We see a series of shots of Cruise flying through terrain from snowy mountains to barren land to open water as dramatic music plays. Apparently he still likes the danger zone. 

Top Gun: Maverick is slated for a summer 2020 release and also stars Val Kilmer, Danny Ramirez, Jennifer Connelly and Jon Hamm. 

Oblivion director Joseph Kosinski is directing the sequel.