6 Interesting Facts about Top Gun Movie: Maverick Yamg Starring Tom Cruise

The Top Gun movie is back in the latest version. Actor Tom Cruise is again appointed as the main character in the film. Top Gun is an action drama film that was released in 1986. This film never reap success when it first aired 36 years ago. Even so, the sequel to the film was only released this year. Top Gun tells the story of Pete Maverick Mitchell, an American naval pilot.

Meanwhile, the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, still tells the story of Pete, but with a different storyline. For fans to wait for decades for a sequel, how exciting is the film? In order not to be curious, let's take a peek at interesting facts about the Top Gun Maverick movie before watching it.

1. Starting from a Magazine Article

Great success, who would have thought that the story of the film Top Gun was inspired by a magazine article that came out in the 1980s. The article tells about the struggle of a fighter pilot at Naval Air Station San Diego, USA.

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By going through many compositions, the story was finally made into a film called Top Gun which was a huge success. The film, which was made with a budget of 15 million dollars, managed to reap a profit of up to 385 million dollars or the equivalent of 5.2 trillion rupiah. Top Gun also entered the ranks of the top films at that time.

2. Telling about Pete Mitchell

The Top Gun movie is back in the latest version. Actor Tom Cruise is again appointed as the main character in the film.Top Gun is an action drama film that was released in 1986. This film never reap success when it first aired 36 years ago. Even so, the sequel to the film was only released this year. Top Gun tells the story of Pete Maverick Mitchell, an American naval pilot.

In the sequel version, Pete, who still holds the position of captain of the American navy, is asked to return to Top Gun. After a career of approximately 30 years as a captain, he is ordered to train a group of young pilots who are prepared to face difficult missions.

3. Back Starring Tom Cruise

Good news for fans of Top Gun (1986) because the character Pete Maverick will be played by Tom Cruise again. Apart from Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer will also appear in the film, which started showing in theaters on May 24.

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Both are actors who acted in the first Top Gun film which was released 36 years ago. Apart from the two of them, new cast members such as Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, and several other actors will also enliven this film.

4. Some Old Artists Are Not Joining

Back with Tom Cruise, unfortunately in Top Gun Maverick, some of the actresses playing Top Gun (1986) will not appear in the sequel version. Like Kelly McGilis, for example, who plays Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood.

In the previous film, Charlie was a physicist as well as a civilian instructor at Top Gun who had an important role in Maverick's love story. Apart from Kelly, Meg Ryan also doesn't appear in Top Gun: Maverick. Having an important role in the story of the first Top Gun film, Ryan played the wife of Nick "Goose" Bradshaw.

5. Directed by Joseph Kosinkski

Top Gun: Maverick is directed by Joseph Kosinkski who is known for his action genre works. Oblivion is one of them, the film also played by Tom Cruise in 2013.

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Back working together, he revealed that Tim Cruise and Miles Miller are well-known actors who he always locks in the films he works on. With its CGI capabilities, Top Gun Maverick doesn't look like the sequel to the film Top Gun which was released 36 years ago.

6. Use real Jet

Besides being assisted by CGI, an interesting fact that cannot be missed from this film is the use of real jets in the shooting process. The distance between making the sequel to the first film makes Tom Cruise lose chemistry with jets.

For that, in order to get chemistry as a fighter pilot, Tom Cruise rides a real jet in the film Top Gun: Maverick. Previously, the role of Maverick was offered to Actor Matthew Moddine. But in the end the production team decided to rejoin Tom Cruise as Maverick. Well, that's a series of interesting facts about Tom Cruise's latest film, Top Gun: Maverick 2022, besides that.