The wait is finally over: six months after Top Gun: Maverick launched, and quickly became the biggest box office success of the year, it's finally joined the libraries of a streaming service.
The lucky service is Paramount Plus, which isn't exactly a surprise since Paramount produced the movie, making it the best streaming service for people who want to watch or re-watch the summer hit.
Top Gun: Maverick is the sequel to the 80s classic Top Gun, depicting Tom Cruise's Pete Mitchell (nicknamed 'Maverick') as he returns to the flight academy known as 'Top Gun' (now the title makes sense!) as an instructor, to teach a new generation of pilots.
For a while, Top Gun: Maverick has been available to rent or buy digitally on Prime Video, as well as a few other digital streaming platforms, but it's only now that you can watch it as part of a streaming service's library.
Paramount Plus costs $4.99 or £6.99 per month — in the US that's for the ad-enabled Essential plan, with the Premium one coming in at $9.99 monthly. In both the US and UK, you can also get an annual plan for the cost of 10 months, saving you two months of fees.
Until the end of 2022, new subscribers in the US can get an annual subscription for half price, which means you can get a year of Paramount Plus (including Top Gun: Maverick) for just $25 or $50.
However if you want to save a bit of money and still see 2022's biggest movie, there's a way of watching Top Gun: Maverick for free.
That's because Paramount Plus offers a 7-day free trial, so you can test out the service without committing your money. You can start the trial, watch Top Gun: Maverick (and plenty more of the other Paramount Plus original shows), and then cancel before the week ends.
Already used the Paramount Plus trial? We've got another option if you subscribe to Amazon Prime: the streaming service also exists as a Prime Video channel, which lets you subscribe via Prime and get all the videos in your Prime Video library.
You can also get a 7-day free trial to the Paramount Plus Prime Video channel even if you've tried the trial for Paramount Plus itself, so it's a good back-up for people who are desperate to watch Top Gun: Maverick.
Check out the trailer announcing Top Gun: Maverick's arrival on Paramount Plus:
