Top Gun: Maverick Featurette Highlights the Cast’s Difficult Flight Training
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Top Gun: Maverick featurette for the highly-anticipated action sequel, starring Tom Cruise in one of his most iconic roles, has been released by Paramount Pictures. It will be released in theaters on May 27.
The video, which you can watch below, includes a commentary from the main cast, which includes Cruise and Miles Teller, who discuss the rigorous training they went through for the film’s never-before-seen aviation sequences. It also provides us with a behind-the-scenes look at how the cast directed and filmed themselves while flying the fighter jets.
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Top Gun: Maverick takes place in a world of drone technology and fifth-generation fighters, and it explores the end of the dogfighting era. Maverick is now a flight instructor who takes under his wing Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s late partner Nick “Goose” Bradshaw.
Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, Jay Ellis, Bashir Salahuddin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Charles Parnell, Ed Harris, and others will appear alongside Cruise.
Top Gun: Maverick is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who previously collaborated with Cruise on Oblivion, and is based on a screenplay by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, and Eric Warren Singer.
Tony Scott directed the original Top Gun, which starred Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Berlin’s performance of “Take My Breath Away.” The film was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2015, because it was “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
