Despite Powell initially losing out on playing one of Maverick’s lead roles, THR revealed that Cruise, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and executives at Paramount Pictures and Skydance Media were so impressed with the actor that they tried to find a different role for him.
In fact, the Maverick bigwigs are so keen on having Powell involved that they’re “beefing up the role for him.”
Glen Powell is currently in talks to board Top Gun: Maverick, and while no details about the character he would play were disclosed, we can presumably expect him to be one of the other pilots at the flight program.
After Miles Teller’s casting in the sequel was announced, Powell commented about losing the role of Goose’s son on Twitter, though he joked that the experience wasn’t enough for him to take down the Tom Cruise posters in his room.