With 20/20 hindsight, the mega-success of Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick” might seem inevitable, since it is a sequel to a familiar title, and it stars Tom Cruise. Of course nothing is a sure bet. …
. Of course nothing is a sure bet. And even with its popularity, there was no assurance Academy voters would embrace it.
The film was a long time coming. Soon after the 1986 “Top Gun,” there was immediate talk of a sequel. “We played around with ideas, then through time we all began to focus on other projects when we couldn’t crack it,” he says. “Tom said we have to shoot it for real; we have to put the actors up in planes. On the first one, the actors couldn’t handle the G forces; Tom devised a plan for the actors to get what they call G tolerance.”
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