A follow-up to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick is in the works, and the film's cast and crew is ready for another round in the danger zone. "My whole cast, we would all be there in a heartbeat," Jay Ellis, who played Reuben "Payback" Fitch in the hit movie, told Fox News Digital in November 2022. "We would be grateful to be there." The highly anticipated Top Gun sequel followed Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) as he recruited and trained a new generation of fighter pilots for a specialized mission.