This has truly been the year of highly-anticipated sequels. Top Gun: Maverick premiered this summer, many decades since the original. Tom Cruise said that he was finally able to film a scene for the movie he wanted to do in the original.
Since there was so much new technology to use, one of the ways they added new scenes was by attaching cameras to the fighter jets. Tom explained, โOne of the first things that didnโt get filmed during ‘Top Gun,’ the first one, was getting catapulted off of the aircraft carrier. So I did on this and I got to do that six times. Itโs unbelievable.โ
Tom Cruise talks about an exciting scene from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
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During the promotion of the film, Tom also explained why it took so many years to create a sequel. He said,ย โFor ‘Top Gun,’ they go, โWhy 36 years?โ I wasnโt ready in โ86. [Producers] Don [Simpson] and Jerry [Bruckheimer], I remember the studio, they wanted to make a sequel immediately. I was like, โI donโt want to do it. I need to grow as an artist, I need to understand what cinema is and I know what I donโt know.โโ
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This seemed to work out well because Top Gun: Maverick did really well in theaters. Tom added that working on the sequels for Mission: Impossible helped him to be able to create the Top Gun sequel.
He added, “And Iโm learning and some of the things that Iโve learned, in terms of ‘Mission: Impossible,’ in doing sequels I learned that I can have a dialogue with an audience. I didnโt expect to have that. Thereโs this dialogue and investment in characters.” Have you seen Top Gun: Maverick yet?
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