'Top Gun: Maverick' starring Tom Cruise, was originally scheduled to open in movie theatres worldwide on June 24, 2020, more than 30 years after the original movie released.
The release of the much-anticipated movie sequel to Top Gun has been moved to December, Paramount Pictures said on Thursday, the latest disruption in the movie industry caused by the coronavirus epidemic.
Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, was originally scheduled to open in movie theatres worldwide on June 24, 2020, more than 30 years after the original movie launched his career as a global action star.
The delay to December 23, 2020, was the latest in a series of blockbuster movies that have been delayed, including the new James Bond film Never Say Die and Disney's Mulan, because of the coronavirus that has closed movie theatres in the United States and much of Europe and Asia.
Top Gun: Maverick, picks up decades after the 1986 box-office hit and features actor Miles Teller as the son of Anthony Edwards' pilot Goose, who is killed during a training exercise in the first movie.
Cruise reprises his role of ace pilot Pete Maverick Mitchell with Miles Teller playing Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Anthony Edwards' character Goose. The action flick stars Jennifer Connelly, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Jay Ellis, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer (who is reprising his role as Iceman), Bashir Salahuddin, Danny Ramirez and Monica Barbaro, reported Variety.
Most of the big movies that make up the lucrative summer season in North America have been postponed. But Hollywood studios are hopeful theatres will reopen and crowds will return in late summer.
Paramount said on Thursday that the animated The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, previously scheduled for a May release, would now open on July 31.
Wonder Woman 1984 from Warner Bros has also been rescheduled from June to August 14, 2020.
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