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Top Gun Officially Returns With Shock New Release Next Month

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There have been plenty of big blockbusters released in the last few years, but few have had the same cultural impact as Top Gun: Maverick. The film returned Tom Cruise to his signature role as Captain Pete Mitchell after nearly 40 years, and fans showed up in droves to see the film, leading to it grossing over $1.4 billion at the box office. Both Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick returned to theaters earlier this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first film’s release, and the legacy sequel received just the push it needed to pass the $1.5 billion mark at the global box office. Paramount has confirmed that it is working on a sequel to Top Gun: Maverick with Cruise, Miles Teller, and Glen Powell all expected to return, but it’s unclear at this time when the film will be released.

Top Gun fans may have to wait a while for the sequel to Top Gun: Maverick, but there’s a new project coming soon that will serve as the perfect appetizer to the mysterious sequel. This afternoon, the popular war video game series, Battlefield, announced that Top Gun: Maverick is officially coming to Battlefield 6 on August 18. The new seasonal event will bring on the launch of two new themed modes, Gauntlet: Fighter Sweep and Carrier Strike, and it will allow players to step into the boots of beloved Top Gun characters like Rooster (played by Miles Teller) and Bob (played by Lewis Pullman). Beginning on August 18, new challenges will be available with new cosmetics, a limited-time currency, all designed for aviators to master their skills in the sky.













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Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
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Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

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🎭Ethan Hunt

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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





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Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

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Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

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Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

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John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

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Where Is ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Streaming?

Rooster and Bob on the Top Gun: Maverick promo poster for Battlefield 6
Image via EA

Since the end of its theatrical run, Top Gun: Maverick has been streaming exclusively on Paramount Plus, and the studio has not announced any plans for it to leave the platform or begin streaming somewhere else. According to FlixPatrol, the world’s leading home for streaming analytics, Top Gun: Maverick has been in the Paramount+ top 10 for nearly 200 days straight, and it’s also a smash hit on VOD platforms like Apple TV, Google, Prime Video, and even iTunes. The film holds scores of 96% from critics and 99% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and it was directed by Joseph Kosinski, who also recently directed F1.

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Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the Top Gun: Maverick Battlefield 6 expansion launching on August 18.


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Release Date
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May 27, 2022

Runtime

131 minutes

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Director

Joseph Kosinski

Writers
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Christopher McQuarrie, Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Peter Craig, Justin Marks

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