Why Top Gun: Maverick Is Keeping Iceman’s Return So Mysterious

We’re refreshing our memories on the different parts from Top Gun as we get closer to the release of this summer’s long-awaited sequel, Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise is back, playing the renegade pilot, though Anthony Edwards can’t return (decades-old spoiler: Goose dies in Top Gun). But Val Kilmer can, and will, play Maverick’s rival, Iceman, in the new movie. Opening up on the production to EW, Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski stated that he’s protecting Iceman’s reveal in the sequel’s marketing materials, explaining: