Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed that Top Gun 2 is still going ahead. ... We still want to do it with Tom and Paramount are still interested in making it," Deadline quotes Bruckheimer as saying.

Top Gun Maverick has teased the return of Tom Cruise's rival, Val Kilmer’s character Iceman, in the final new trailer for the sequel that is released in May.

A Top Gun sequel without those sorts of hijinks needs to be carefully crafted; otherwise all of the work done on Maverick would be squandered. Of course, that’s a subject that’s up for discussion.