Balancing on a plane in flight, Tom Cruise unveils the new “Top Gun”

The king of the waterfall.

It is perched in balance on a biplane in flight that Tom Cruise unveiled Thursday in world preview

, second part of the hit film released in 1986. The sequel to

takes up the story of Maverick, pilot elite embodied by Tom Cruise, thirty years after the original film.

Its release was originally scheduled for 2020, but it has been pushed back several times due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Tom Cruise, 59, presented his film via a video message to attendees of CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the annual high mass for movie theater owners.

Renowned for his ability to perform a large number of stunts himself, it was perched on a plane in full flight over South Africa that he addressed them.

"You Can't Stop It"

" Hi everyone.

I would have liked to be there with you.

Sorry for the noise,” the actor yells over the roar of the aircraft's engine and the whistling of the wind.

“As you can see, we are filming the latest episode of

,” he laughs.

“Tom does everything at full speed, all the time… and you can't stop him,” joked Jerry Bruckheimer, who was also producer of the first

, present in the room in Las Vegas.

The plot and details of the film are being kept under wraps until

officially premieres at the Cannes Film Festival next month, but the film received immediate applause on social media from journalists attending the screening. by Paramount Studios.

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Return of Val Kilmer

The new part remains faithful to the recipe that made the success of the first

featuring intense action scenes shot aboard real US Navy fighter jets, as well as plenty of references to the original.

Tony Scott, who directed it, died in 2012 but his successor, Joseph Kosinski, "found a way to pique Tom's interest" after seeing videos on YouTube shot by Navy pilots in the air. using GoPro cameras during their training flights.

“I showed this to Tom and he said 'it's available for free on the internet… If you can't do better, then it's not worth making the film' And so he agreed!

smiles Joseph Kosinski.

With the help of naval aviation engineers, the filmmakers have indeed succeeded in placing no less than six cameras in the cockpit of the jets used for the filming.

The original film was inspired by the elite pilot training program known as Topgun, held at a now-closed military base in San Diego, California.

was so successful that the recruiting officers had been overwhelmed with requests from young people who wanted to follow in the footsteps of Maverick and his comrades.

Some had even set up tables in front of cinemas showing the film.

At the time, however, the film crew "did not receive much support from the Navy", underlines Joseph Kosinski.

"For this film, however, when we made contact with the Navy, the doors were thrown open to us: 'Come in, tell us what you need'".

The second part, for example, had access to the very secure base of China Lake, in the Californian Mojave desert, says the director.

Top Gun: Maverick

also sees the return of Val Kilmer, who played rival "Iceman" in the original film.

He made an appearance there, a particularly poignant performance since the actor lost the use of his voice following treatment for throat cancer.

“Val felt comfortable doing it.

It was very moving to film,” recalls Jerry Bruckheimer.

"He's still an incredible actor, an incredible individual," said the producer, of whom Tom Cruise said, "I'm not doing this movie if Val isn't in it."

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