Tom Cruise was initially hesitant to return for a Top Gun sequel, so what convinced him to finally make Top Gun: Maverick nearly four decades later?
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Top Gun: Maverick finally came out in 2022, being the long-awaited follow-up to the 1986 classic, and this massive time gap can be explained by Tom Cruise initially being hesitant to return for a Top Gun sequel. Despite the original Top Gun being one of Cruise's most iconic films, it took decades for a sequel to come out.
Top Gun: Maverick is considered to be one of the best legacy sequels ever made, mixing the old cast of Tom Cruise's Maverick and Val Kilmer's Iceman with new characters like Miles Teller's Rooster and Glen Powell's Hangman. Despite it coming out nearly four decades after the original film, Top Gun: Maverick went on to gross over $1.4 billion, making it an even bigger success than the original.
OK, some people felt that Top Gun was a right-wing film to promote the Navy. And a lot of kids loved it. But I want the kids to know that that’s not the way war is—that Top Gun was just an amusement park ride, a fun film with a PG-13 rating that was not supposed to be reality... That’s why I didn’t go on and make Top Gun II and III and IV and V. That would have been irresponsible.
Tom Cruise's comments on Top Gun's propagandistic potential may be surprising to some fans, but they actually make sense. The U.S. Navy was heavily involved in the production of Top Gun, providing equipment, training, and filming locations. The Navy also had to approve of Top Gun's script, making changes to the film based on geopolitical circumstances.
Cruise had apparently changed his mind about working with the Navy since the original Top Gun, as Top Gun: Maverick again heavily involved the United States Navy in the film's production. However, due to Top Gun: Maverick giving a greater focus to the dynamic between characters rather than glorifying war and the action scenes, the sequel's potential for propaganda may have been lower in Cruise's eyes.
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