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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Trailer Blasted For Seemingly Pandering To China

Paul Bois

After a 34-year hiatus, Tom Cruise will be slipping back into the pilot’s seat in the upcoming “Top Gun: Maverick,” set for release in the summer 2020. Upon the movie trailer’s release last week, fans were largely pleased to see Cruise in top form returning to the character that made him a box office star in 1986. Take a look:

Though not much appears to have changed in the three decades since “Top Gun” became a cultural phenomenon, social media has been abuzz with one glaring difference between the upcoming sequel and the original: two distinct patches representing the Taiwanese flag and the Japanese flag on Maverick’s famous leather jacket have been replaced, presumably as an acquiescence to China.

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