How Tom Cruise Was Convinced to Return For Top Gun: Maverick
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Top Gun: Maverick.
Director Joseph Kosinski reveals how Tom Cruise was convinced to return for Top Gun: Maverick. The Hollywood A-lister revisits arguably his most iconic role as Pete «Maverick» Mitchell in the new film several decades after the original film. Considering the glowing reviews for Top Gun: Maverick, it seems it's worth it.
It's no secret that there was always an interest to make a Top Gun sequel, but considering how beloved the 1986 Tony Scott film was, Cruise was justifiably careful with it. The actor has been open about wanting to make sure that they can live up to the quality of the original movie so it took them more than three decades to make Top Gun: Maverick. As the director and former collaborator of Cruise in Oblivion, Kosinksi knew what the Hollywood star was looking for that would ultimately make him agree into doing Top Gun: Maverick.
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In a new interview with Polygon, Kosinski reveals how he came up with the story for Top Gun: Maverick and how he pitched it to Cruise. According to the filmmaker, the actor needed an emotional reason to revisit the role and so he focused on that with the incorporation of Goose's (Anthony Edwards) death in the original Top Gun. Kosinski also pointed out how interesting it would be to see what Maverick is doing now. Read his full quote below:
Well, I worked with Tom, and I knew to start with character and emotion. I just pitched this idea of Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller) growing up to become a naval aviator, and him and Maverick having this fractured relationship that had never been repaired. With Maverick getting called back to train this group of students to go on a mission that he knows is
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