![]() “Tom does not half-ass anything, as we all know, and Tom put together a flight program for all of us so that by the time we graduated to the F/A-18, we wouldn’t be passing out or puking in Naval assets,” said Powell, who was so enamored by flying he has since gotten his pilot’s license. “It was a very emotional day - you saw Maverick and Iceman back onscreen again after 36 years.”Īnd now back to those new recruits, who underwent a rigorous Tom Cruise boot camp to look like real-life aviators and withstand powerful g-forces as they learned to fly alongside trained pilots. “Tom said, ‘I’m not making the movie without Val,’ and of course we had to talk to Val he was up to it, he helped create the scene with us,” recalled Bruckheimer of the actor, who lost his speaking voice after a battle with throat cancer. In addition to a starry cast of new pilots - including Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis, Monica Barbaro, Danny Ramirez and Greg Tarzan Davis - the film sees a return of one of the original’s favorites: Val Kilmer’s Tom “Iceman” Kazansky. The producer also confirmed Cruise really is behind the dash in all of those action scenes (“Every time you see him flying, that’s him in that jet”) and said that no stunt was deemed too big for the star: “You can’t pull Tom Cruise back. Tom Cruise just arrived to the #TopGunMaverick premiere in a helicopter he flew himself /uA4X0UL4DZ Director Joseph Kosinski pitched Cruise and the creative team the Maverick story, complete with poster idea and lookbook, and “after he finished pitching it, Tom pulled out his phone and called Paramount and said, ‘I’m making another Top Gun movie,'” Bruckheimer told The Hollywood Reporter. It has been 35 years since the original Top Gun, and the follow-up has been in discussion for a decade, said producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Simon Pegg Says He Hid Alcoholism While Working on 'Mission: Impossible III' Film Set ![]()
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