Top Gun producers reveal who is going play Goose's son in the sequel

Miles Teller has been cast as the son of Goose in the long-planned sequel to "Top Gun."

Teller was announced Tuesday as the co-star opposite Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Maverick." He'll be playing the son the of Maverick's wingman. Goose was played by Anthony Edwards in the 1986 original.

The film, which will also return Val Kilmer as Iceman, is scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures in July 2019. Directing is Joe Kosinski, who helmed "Oblivion," also with Cruise.

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Teller beat out X-Men star Nicholas Hoult and Scream Queen star Glen Powell to get the role. After it was announced, Glen tweeted:

"I'm taking down all the Tom Cruise posters in my bedroom, maybe, I'll leave one. Two for symmetry. Okay, the posters are staying."

Tom Cruise (Maverick) and Val Kilmer (Iceman) are set to reprise their roles in the sequel with Cruise telling Access Hollywood that the upcoming film will have "the same tone that we had with the first one".

"Stylistically it's gonna be the same," he said. "We're gonna have the same score from Harold Faltermeyer. Aviators are back.

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"The need for speed, we're gonna have big machines. It's gonna be a competition film like the first one, and it's gonna be in the same vein, the same tone as the first one, but a progression for Maverick."

Filming for Top Gun: Maverick is currently underway.

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