‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Its director, Joseph Kosinski, sees the possibility of a sequel

Since its premiere last May, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ has grossed more than $1.4 billion and is the 10th highest-grossing film of all time and the first of 2022 (at least until ‘Avatar: The sense of water’). ‘). The fact is that in addition to being so well received by the public, critics fell in love with it too, and it currently has 96% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.. And what happens in Hollywood when a film succeeds like this? That no one wants to kill the goose that lays the golden egg and you immediately start thinking about sequels. Well, it’s true that ‘Top Gun. Air idols’ was released in 1986 and ‘Maverick’ didn’t arrive until 35 years later, but it doesn’t look like we’ll have to wait that long this time around if the case finally comes to pass.

In a panel hosted by Deadline, director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer talked about the chances we’ll see another sequel: “Is there another story compelling enough to keep us going back?” Kosinsky asked, “It seems to me that at the end of this movie Maverick still has some gas left in his tank. He’s not settling down.” ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ stars, of course, Tom Cruise as Captain Pete Mitchell, aka Maverick; Val Kilmer, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly among others.

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Despite what is most famous for having always curated his action scenes without wanting to resort to doubles is Cruise, according to what both creatives commented at the panel, the entire cast underwent intense training in order to be able to shoot some of the most complex aerial sequences. “I knew we could have put Tom on the plane, but we weren’t sure about the rest of the cast”Kosinksi explained to the audience present, “So Tom came up with this three-month course for all the actors, starting with a very simple airplane and going all the way up to a Navy jet. They all have to shoot all of their scenes in real jets, which is just phenomenal because you can’t imagine how physically difficult it is to do what they’re doing. They fly with real Top Gun pilots. They’re doing the same maneuvers, even more intense maneuvers than they do in training.”

In addition to pirouetting through the air, they also learned water survival techniques, which Bruckheimer recalls included diving into “in a cage blindfolded, being thrown into water about two meters deep face down and having to figure out how to get out of the cage. That doesn’t exactly sound funny, and even Kosinski admits it “A couple of them had a rough time, but they didn’t tell us. In fact, they were going to keep it a secret just to make sure we had what we needed.” The bad thing is that there are things you can’t hide, like getting sick, and the director recalls that in the end everyone got sick except one person: Monica Barbaro. Would you like to see more of “Top Gun” or is it better for the saga to stay on top?