40 years after the original Top Gun, the franchise is still flying high, significantly buoyed by the 2022 release of Top Gun: Maverick. Decades later, the formula of combining Tom Cruise movie magic with aerial acrobatics remains uniquely compelling, and Maverick pushed the concept to even greater heights than before.
It's since been confirmed that Tom Cruise will return for yet another Top Gun film — good luck living up to Maverick with that one. We won't have to wait that long to see some new Top Gun action, though, as a new trailer from a surprising source reveals a more imminent release.
The popular FPS game Battlefield 6 dropped a trailer for its Season 4 naval update yesterday on YouTube, and it includes a surprising tease for a Top Gun collaboration. After roughly two minutes of in-game action, the trailer cuts to a recreation of footage from Top Gun, showing an F-14 preparing to take off.
While the footage itself could easily be taken as just a brief homage, it's both accompanied by a brief swell of Top Gun's synth-heavy soundtrack and placed as the trailer's concluding moment. Consequently, it seems like an obvious official tease for an...
