This summer, Tom Cruise reprises his iconic role of Maverick for the upcoming “Top Gun” sequel which arrives a full 34 years after the original hit screens and changed both the portrayal of the U.S. Navy and shirtless volleyball forever.
With the sequel, which has long been in the works, Cruise wanted to return only if they could do something both not seen before, and not use digital trickery to hide the real action. Speaking with Empire for their most recent issue, Cruise discussed how he made it clear to the studio that they were going practical as much as possible because it will deliver something not seen on screen to date:
He says: “I realised that there were things that we could accomplish cinematically. And I started getting excited about this big challenge of, ‘How do we do it?’ So I said to Jerry, ‘I’ll do it if…’ meaning, I’m not going to do the CGI stuff… I said to the studio, ‘You don’t know how hard this movie’s going to be. No-one’s ever done this before,’. There’s never been an aerial sequence shot this way. I don’t know if there ever will be again, to be honest.”
This also means more physicality and excitement regarding the flight sequences in this outing. Bruckheimer says: “What’s different about this movie is that [in Top Gun] we put the actors in the F-14s and we couldn’t use one frame of it, except some stuff on Tom, because they all threw up. It’s hysterical to see their eyes roll back in their heads. So everything was done on a gimbal. But in this movie, Tom wanted to make sure the actors could actually be in the F-18s.”
“Top Gun: Maverick” is currently targeting a June 24th release.
