How Much It Cost Top Gun: Maverick To Fly Real F-18 Jets Per Hour
The US Navy lent Top Gun: Maverick access to F/A-18 Super Hornets jets for the new movie, but the production had to pay a very hefty price. The long-awaited sequel to the 1986 filmTop Gun is finally hitting theaters on Memorial Day weekend, following two years of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top Gun is clearly associated with fighter jets and state-of-the-art equipment, and for the latest film, the producers went to the Department of Defense, aka the DOD, to assist with the movie.
The DOD has partnered with many different films, ranging from Steven Spielberg'sIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Michael Bay's Transformers film series, to even the MCU with films like Iron Man and Captain Marvel. With DOD backing, filmmakers can get access to military weapons and vehicles at a lower cost; in exchange, the DOD is allowed access to the script and can ask for changes that the filmmakers can choose or not choose to comply with. However, if they choose not to comply, that can result in the access being pulled, as was the case with The Avengers when the DOD objected to SHIELD sending a nuclear warhead at New York.
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In a recent report by Bloomberg, Paramount Pictures paid the US Navy $11,374 an hour to fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets for Top Gun: Maverick. Glen Roberts, the chief of the Pentagon's entertainment media office, revealed that Pentagon regulation bars non-military personnel from controlling a Defense Department asset other than small arms in training scenarios, so Tom Cruise was not allowed to touch the controls. Cruise insisted that all the actors portraying pilots fly in one of the fighter jets built by Boeing Co. so they could understand what
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