Since a lot of the colour palette of the movie is in those sunset tints, I thought that putting a fighter jet in front of the setting sun was very fitting for this project. To make the title stand out, l've put it against the underside of the plane with the Maverick being laid out like it is on Maverick's helmet in the movies.
For this school project, we were tasked with designing a poster for a real movie using only stock images and, if it already had an established logo, to not use it. Here is the result.