Top Gun: Maverick's Hardest-to-Film Scene Alone Deserves an Oscar
You would think that shooting an aerial fight scene for an aviation porn movie would be the hardest part. This is so wrong!
The director of the Top Gun sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski, told The Wrap Magazine that the airplane scenes were nowhere near as difficult as shooting one in the ocean.
The scene shows pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) on a boat with Penny (Jennifer Connelly) as they sail through the waves. The filmmaker said it was the hardest scene to shoot because his crew couldn't control what was happening.
"That sequence was in some ways the hardest to get because it was largely out of our control. We're relying on wind to make the sequence great, and we had to go find wind," Kosinski said, adding that people had to love it because it was real.
The sequel was released in May 2022 and is full of what every fighter jet enthusiast loved about the first 1986 film. It has plenty of sexy dogfights, aerial stunts, beautiful jets and action. And not just that!
In one of her Twitter posts, the movie fan said she found an Easter egg that others missed!
"My favorite party trick is to show people that they sampled the audio from the volleyball scene in Top Gun 1986 for the beach soccer scene in Top Gun Maverick," tweeted Emma, whose post didn't go unnoticed by the film's editor, Eddie Hamilton.
He was impressed because Emma was the only person to spot the reference to the original Top Gun.
The tweet went viral and Christopher McQuarrie replied that he and Tom Cruise, who wrote Top Gun: Maverick together, were equally impressed when the film's editor showed the tweet to them over breakfast.
Signing on for a Tom Cruise movie is tough. The A-lister usually does all of his own stunts and asks his crew to do the same. This is exactly what Glen Powell ( Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin) had to go through when working with Cruise.
Powell had to jump out of a plane and skydive on his own without an instructor, and when he did, he could not find a tab to open his parachute.
"Oh, Tom just killed me. He's going to feel so bad," was the first thought that crossed Powell's mind as he plummeted to earth. The actor managed to find the tab, opened his chute, landed, and went back up for another try.
Top Gun: Maverick has grossed more than $1.4 billion internationally, making it both Tom Cruise's and 2022's highest-grossing film.