Being a Top Gun fan, or a lover of fighter pilot movies, is as frustrating as it is rewarding. As good as these kinds of movies are, they rarely get made. Top Gun: Maverick grossed a whopping $1.496 billion and earned praise from everyone who watched it, yet there is still no news of when a sequel will arrive. Before that, fans had to wait for over 30 years before that particular movie premiered. Cruise and Paramount Pictures focused on everything else but planes and aerial dogfights.