What you may need to know.

1. Top Gun 2, aka Top Gun: Maverick, is almost here after what has felt like endless delays for even the most patient of fans.

2. At one point, the sequel was set to come out in July 2019, but now it seems to definitely be flying into cinemas in May 2022, after 30 years a few more months won’t make that much difference?

3. According to The Wall Street Journal, both Netflix and Apple asked Paramount if the studio would sell the movie to them for a streaming debut.

4. Tom Cruise is back in the pilot’s seat as “Maverick”, while Val Kilmer reprises his role as Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.

5. Director Joseph Kosinski is keeping tight-lipped over how their relationship has changed in the intervening years though.

6. Alongside them are some new faces, including Miles Teller (Whiplash, Fantastic Four) as “Rooster”, a pilot trainee and the son of Maverick’s late best friend “Goose”.

7. Jennifer Connelly is the female lead, playing a single mother who runs a local bar near the Navy base

8. Kelly McGillis is not returning as Charlotte Blackwood, aka Charlie, as producer Jerry Bruckheimer told Total Film, her arc was “left back in the arc”

9. After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.

10. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialised mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt Bradley Bradshaw, call sign ‘Rooster’, the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt Nick Bradshaw, aka ‘Goose’.

11. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

Andy’s verdict: I Feel The Need…

Release: In cinemas May 27.