Correcting 15 years of superhero dominance at the box office, and Quentin Tarantino loves him, Top Gun: Maverick restores belief in old-fashioned blockbuster cinema focused on stars and above all gripping action sequences supports. Both go hand in hand in Joseph Kosinski’s story – not least because the stunt-mad Tom Cruise played the leading role.
in one Background video that we show you exclusivelylearn more about it training and the Preparation for Top Gun 2. Tom Cruise, extremely humble as ever, wanted “Create the greatest aviator film of all time”. He committed the crew and cast to this goal.
Tom Cruise prepared the Top Gun: Maverick cast for emergencies, as you can see in the video
Top Gun: Maverick – Featurette Preparing To Fly
The training for Top Gun 2 was based on an ambitious premise: the audience should be able to feel what it’s like to be in a jet plane. For that they had to Actors around Tom Cruise get on the jets and fly themselves
(under professional supervision). They went through rigorous trainingwhich is modeled after the real pilot:innen.
That included one Training for emergencies: What happens if a plane has to land in water? This situation was rehearsed in a simulator in a huge pool – much to the chagrin of the cast. “I thought I was drowning. It was hard”says an actor.
The hard training for Top Gun: Maverick leads to nausea
The cast, of course, also revels in the intensity and the “we’re doing this for real” realism on display. That’s good Tom Cruise school. But who with nausea and twisted stomach sat in a jet at 7G speed and anyone who endured it for months with Tom Cruise, who was sure to be exhausting at some point, should of course be proud.
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