Tom Cruise's Top Gun 2 adds another big-name star, Ed Harris joins

Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 6 will be released in mainland China next week, and his new film Top Gun 2 is currently being filmed. Recently, the film company announced that Jon Hamm from Mad Men and Ed Harris from Apollo 13 and Westworld will join the film, but their roles have not yet been announced. Also joining the film are Lewis Pullman and seven other young actors. The film will be released in North America on July 12 next year.

"Top Gun 2" has a lot of new blood: Thomasin McKenzie ("The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies"), Charles Parnell ("The Last Ship"), Jay Ellis ("Masters of Sex"), Bashir Salahuddin ("GLOW"), Danny Ramirez ("Assassination Nation"), Monica Barbaro ("Good Cop")

Including the original cast members Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, as well as stars such as Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller, "Top Gun 2" can be said to be a star-studded film.

"Top Gun" is Tom Cruise's famous work, which was released in 1986. For more than 30 years, Tom Cruise has been actively promoting the filming of "Top Gun 2", but the project has been difficult to advance for various reasons. Tony Scott, the director of "Top Gun", was the main creator who wanted to shoot the second part the most. He had written the script and had seen the shooting location with Tom Cruise, but he committed suicide in August 2012 due to depression.

In 2017, after Tom Cruise found Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) ​​as the director, the project finally received the green light from Paramount.

It is reported that the sequel tells the story of the increasing role played by drones in the military, but Pete Mitchell (Mavic), played by Tom Cruise, believes that excellent pilots still play a big role, and he will train a new generation of TOP GUN (top pilots). Miles Teller will play the son of Gus (Anthony Edwards), who died in the first episode, symbolizing inheritance.