C'mon guys, the plot writes itself:
Tom Cruise is the captain/mentor role, but still has his sweet motorcycle/shades, never settled down. The first WOMAN Top Gun candidate - whaaaaa??? (record needle screech noise). She's all business, all the misogynists call her a "b-word" and her call sign is ICEQUEEN. This movie defies convention and is IN YOUR FACE about defying expectation (and convention) while you watch our titular heroine fly straight up the butthole of the patriarchy and smash through the glass ceiling those ol' flyboys call a face. BUT Tom Cruise may be 67 years old, but the tension between them is too much, taboo even! Does he give up his command to be with her? Will she survive the next mission and punch nazis in the face? YOU BETTA BELIEVE IT SISTA! Too bad for Maverick, she's totally out of his league and identifies as a trans gender non-conforming male. You've never seen volleyball like this!
SUMMER 2019!
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Followed by backlash against how horrible the idea of a sequel is, but the studio uses the negative spin to market it as "sticking it to the neckbeard white males" in order to fill seats, a la Ghostbusters 2016.