Tom Cruise allegedly delayed the premiere of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ by a decade to avoid its streaming premiere

“I make films for the public”says Tom Cruise shortly before addressing those present on the Jimmy Kimmel show directly. “I make them for you. I just want to entertain you”. And with this mission increasingly impossible if you insist on undertaking it from a cinema, the star and producer of the six-time Oscar nominee this 2023, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, sat down at the aforementioned late night. In addition to sharing laughs at his insistence on personally handling the action scenes in his films and pointing out that he does it all for his audience, Said actor did not fail to reiterate what is most important to him: that the first thing is entertainment and that he will fight to the last in defense of cinemas..

Joking with the final result of the aforementioned film in theaters, a sequel to ‘Top Gun’. Idols of the air’ that after months boasting unprecedented maintenance given the circumstances, closed its run on the big screen by surpassing $1.488 million at the worldwide box office; The host of the space said that one and a half billion dollars proved him right: streaming was not the way. The release of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ was delayed for two years so that the film could attract moviegoers to the cinemas, a gamble Cruise had to defend in front of the Paramount studio. “The public has waited 34 years, I thought it would be right to add a couple more”. That said, Kimmel considers the extreme possibility: What if the worst pandemic situation lasted a decade?

“It would have delayed its release by 10 years. The film is made for the big screen. I did it for movies. We all did it for the movies”says Cruise, recalling that moment of steadfastness as did another of the film’s producers, Jerry Bruckheimer recently. This Hollywood veteran, nominated for an Oscar for the first time “after 50 years in the industry”he confesses that when ‘Maverick’ hit theaters, they were very nervous. “We wanted to make sure the public was willing to leave the house”says about multiple date changes. “I think the film’s success gave hope and suggested that other films would draw audiences to theaters.. ‘Top Gun’ exuded confidence and was reminiscent of those films that audiences forgot about in confinement.”.

the return of the ice man

After speaking about Cruise’s popularity among his fellow professionals as well and reviewing one of the most impressive dangerous sequences of ‘Mission Impossible: Deadly Judgment – Part 1’ which hits theaters on July 14th; Kimmel wanted to remind that this movie star is more than a man of action, showing one of the most emotional moments of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: the return of the Iceman at the hands of Val Kilmer.

“He’s a very powerful actor”says Cruise of his partner. “He immediately became that character again… You were watching Iceman. I cried and was very emotional”, as was the case with most ‘Top Gun’ fans who couldn’t believe Kilmer was finally involved in the sequel. And is that this actor, who lost his voice due to a tracheotomy performed due to throat cancer that took him off the screen in 2015, has barely worked since. Indeed, his short lines of dialogue in “Maverick” could be included using artificial intelligence to recreate his voice.