Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick
Skydance Media/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/New Republic Pictures/TC Productions/Tencent Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Release date
05/27/2022
#whatonwhatsgood Express Review by: Jovin Tardif | What On What's Good)
Top Gun: Maverick starts off with a challenge. Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent back to Top Gun training school. He isn't there to fly but to teach others.
The Russians have created a uranium enrichment facility that happens to be in a complex area near a canyon that is protected by surface-to-air missiles.
Maverick will need to train 12 young students and select 6 individuals to take on this challenging assignment.
What can I say about the movie? Top Gun: Maverick is quite entertaining. The aerial scenes are sensational. You feel like you are part of the experience. I like the scenes with Rooster (Miles Teller) and Maverick. Rooster is not a fan of Maverick...by the way, he is the son of Goose (Anthony Edwards) from the original 1986 movie.
Lt. Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin (Glen Powell) is also an interesting character. I kind of like him as a cocky know-it-all.
Cast members discuss Top Gun: Maverick
Bashir Salahuddin "Hondo"
When you see this movie you should both be reminded of some of the things you liked about the first movie, but more than that, you should be blown away by all the new stuff we're doing.
Hondo is Maverick's best friend. He's a guy who can be honest with him.
Charles Parnell "Warlock"
When I read the script I came out of the office thinking this is a relationship film kind of disguised as an action film.
Warlock is someone that actually knows Maverick from back in the day. He was in Maverick's class. He was one of the guys in Maverick's class that you didn't see in the film. Then their paths diverged. Maverick went on to do other things, and Warlock stayed on.
Warlock followed the rules. He was a good pilot. I think he had ambitions to kind of, be in higher positions. He was successful and became a two-star admiral.
Christopher McQuarrie - Producer/Writer
When I came on board the film, just a few weeks before they started production, I suggested that we all go back and watch the original film. We all sat down, looked at it together, and talked through the movie.
It was very important to Tom and I when we would talk about Top Gun that you didn't have to see the original movie in order to enjoy this one.
The pilots in the film...that was a fascinating challenge. We wanted to have a more developed group and a greater sense of the pilots around him.
One of the things I said to Tom in that early meeting was that the original Top Gun was not just about Maverick and Goose, it was about culture. It was about the culture of these pilots and the competition that they all had with one another...The spirit of competition that they all had with one another.
More than anything. I just wanted to be part of a really good story.
We were challenged every day to not focus on the original film. To not be daunted and overwhelmed by it. The original top gun was a spirit looming over us. We knew that we owed fans of the film a film that was just as good, if not better. But we also knew the film we were making had to stand alone.
Danny Ramirez "Fanboy"
Top Gun: Maverick is going to be the first film to ever film inside and outside of the cockpit of an F18. It's pushing cinematic boundaries. It's like cinematic history. It's never been done.
It's planet Earth at 700 miles an hour, with a 6K camera, an oscar-willing cinematographer, a fantastic director, a master producer, and a fantastic actor.
Filming the F18 to me felt like the most intense self-tape of all time...because you're there with four cameras facing you, two facing out, and 2 hours to get the footage
FanBoy is a weapon system operator. He's a backseater. He's happy to be there. He's obsessed with all things navy. This guy knew what he wanted to do from day one, and he went and did it.
Glen Powell "Hangman"
I first saw Top gun when I was 10 years old, with my dad. I feel like for most fathers and sons, it's sort of a right of passage. It's something that I think fathers sort of hold on to and they're like okay, I cannot wait to show my son this and that's how I was with my dad. I remember after seeing that movie I asked my Dad to start taking acting classes. So if there's a movie that got me into acting it's this one.
I would say Hangman is like a cross between Iceman and Maverick.
I've been wanting to work with Jerry my entire life. Every time Jerry's onset, I try to have lunch with him just to pick his brain.
Greg Tarzan Davis "Coyote"
I think Top Gun: Maverick is bringing back the same tone that they had in the first one.Coyote is the life of the party. He is the comic relief to all of the seriousness. But Coyote is also the person who wants to be the best and is the best. He graduated from Top Gun. He's one of the best pilots, but he just seems to always fall short. He always feels that he has to prove himself.
Jay Ellis "Payback"
I gotta say this cast...everyone actually has been absolutely amazing to go through this journey with.We say it all the time to each other we're not sure we would have been able to make it without each other in a lot of ways. I think we all leaned on each other at times when we were struggling, or when we were tired.Our flight training/swim test really brought us together as a group.
Jennifer Connelly "Penny Benjamin"
Penny Benjamin is mentioned in the first film. She's someone that kind of has an on-again-off-again relationship with Maverick over the years. They have this sort of fiery romance and then falls apart. They sort of keep coming back to each other.When we meet them in this film they're at different points in their lives.What makes this film so special is that you're seeing people doing extraordinary things.
Tom demands excellence in every movie that he does. He does his own stunts. He's flying his own plane in this movie.I think it's really exciting for an audience to see an actor so committed to his craft. It's no accident that he's one of the biggest movie stars in the world. There's a reason his movies do so well. He put so much time and energy and commitment into it.It's amazing what we see in the cockpit. What an audience is going to experience. You're going to experience what it's really like to be a pilot.It's a spectacular character study about aviators and what they exactly feel, and the stress they go through. The things they go through, and how they prepare themselves.
Jon Hamm "Cyclone"
I had certainly heard rumors of a sequel or something over the years. It's a story that could easily have another chapter. Just being asked to be a part of this is kind of a feather in one's cap. I was just thrilled to be asked honestly.
It's a pretty cool environment, shooting on the base. These hangers are enormous. It's impressive everywhere you look.
I think it's going to be an amazing movie and cinematic experience for people.
Joseph Kosinski - Director
So we have 4 cameras on the actor themselves. We have a wide-angle, a tight 2 over the shoulders, and then we have 2 cameras pointing forward, capturing the forward view. So we have 6 Imax quality cameras inside the cockpit with the actors while they run the scenes.
We had to get the cast trained to actually be in a navy airplane. So they had to go through the Navy training course to be qualified to sit in an F 18. They had to go through all that training.
We're capturing a way that no film has ever done before. We are working with the greatest pilots in the world.
We're using very high-tech tools, but we're using them in a kind of old-school way.
There's no way we could have made this film without the participation of the US Navy. They've been an amazing partner in this film. We've gotten to go to places that no one's ever seen before. So without their help, we would never be able to pull this off.
It's been an amazing experience.
I think Maverick, in some ways, is the character that made Tom a superstar. I think for him, this film holds a very special place in his heart.
It's amazing to see Tom return to that role put that jacket on, put the sunglasses on and see him go back into that character.
You're going to experience aviation in a way that you've never experienced before.
Kevin LaRosa II, Lead Camera Helicopter Camera Jet Pilot/Aerial Coordinator
I'm Kevin LaRosa JR., the aerial coordinator for Top Gun: Maverick.From the platform, I work with production and the navy to make sure everything's done safely.Top Gun was a household movie. I mean I've seen it hundreds of times.In Top Gun: Maverick, we had to show aviation in a way using the technology that wasn't available back then on Top Gun. We have to show the world what this is about and it can't be fake. People know when CGI's in there.
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Directed by
Joseph Kosinski
Screenplay by
Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, Christopher McQuarrie
Story by
Peter Craig, Justin Marks
Based on
Characters by Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.
Produced by
Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison
Starring
Tom Cruise as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
Miles Teller as Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw
Jennifer Connelly as Penny Benjamin
Jon Hamm as Vice Admiral Cyclone
Glen Powell as "Hangman"
Lewis Pullman as Bob
Ed Harris as Rear Admiral
Val Kilmer as Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky
Monica Barbaro as Natasha "Phoenix" Trace
Charles Parnell as Rear Admiral Warlock
Danny Ramirez as "Fanboy"
Manny Jacinto as Fritz
Bashir Salahuddin as Coleman
Jay Ellis as Payback Fitch
Jake Picking
Raymond Lee
Lyliana Wray as Amelia Benjamin
Jean Louisa Kelly as Carole Bradshaw
Greg Davis as Coyote
Bob Stephenson as United States Air Force General Edward Clayton
Cinematography
Claudio Miranda
Edited by
Eddie Hamilton, Chris Lebenzon
Music by
Harold Faltermeyer, Hans Zimmer
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