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Don't just watch Top Gun, live it - Paramount is planning a Las Vegas experience based on the high-flying Tom Cruise pilot movies
Are you Maverick enough to visit a live Top Gun experience in Las Vegas? Come 2028, you'll have the chance to find your inner Tom Cruise for yourself
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It’s one thing to watch Top Gun, and another thing entirely to be part of it — and Paramount has plans to let fans understand the difference for themselves by launching a theme park experience based on the Tom Cruise movies in Las Vegas. Don’t worry; it’ll involve more than just flight simulators.
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop about the partnership between Paramount Global and Advent Allen Entertainment to create a Top Gun experience at the Strat Hotel in Las Vegas — and, if it’s successful, build similar experiences around the world.
“The Top Gun films are one of the most emotionally charged stories of our time,” Mark Advent, co-founder of Advent Allen Entertainment, told THR. “We’re proud to unite with Paramount to bring this timeless, action-packed epic to life — delivering experiences that embody teamwork, excellence, the exhilaration of speed and the thrill of flying. We are pulling out all the stops and looking forward to bringing Top Gun to even higher heights on the Strip and beyond!”
Details on just how the Top Gun experience will be handled remain under wraps, but apparently it’ll involve “a combination of rides and storytelling,” as well as a recreation of the iconic Hard Deck bar from Top Gun: Maverick, so that you too can practice your keyboard skills to the doubtless pleasure of your fellow patrons.
The Top Gun experience — tentatively titled Top Gun: Las Vegas — is aimed for a 2028 opening. So when do we get a Mission: Impossible experience that it’s particularly difficult to get into?
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