Top Gun 2: Danger Zone Re-Recorded By Loggins But Movie Didn't Use It
Kenny Loggins says he re-recorded “Danger Zone” for Top Gun 2 but producers decided not to use it. Loggins’ hit track from 1986’s Top Gun added the phrase “highway to the danger zone” to the lexicon. It also perfectly captured the very ‘80s action-movie feel of the Tom Cruise-led blockbuster hit.
Top Gun indeed seemed for many years like an artifact that would remain very much back in the 1980s. Until of course Cruise and company decided to bring back hot-shot pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for a long-awaited sequel. Many expressed skepticism that audiences would embrace the hot-dogging heroics of Maverick in 2022. But Cruise proved everyone wrong as Top Gun: Maverick soared in its opening weekend with over $150 million at the domestic box office.
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Nostalgia was of course a big part of why the Top Gun sequel did so well with audiences over Memorial Day weekend. Indeed the movie leans into that nostalgia pretty heavily, especially in the opening sequence, which perfectly recreates the beginning of the original Top Gun, right down to the use of “Danger Zone” on the soundtrack. In fact, the version of “Danger Zone” used in the new movie is the exact original recording made for the first film way back in the ‘80s. Speaking to EW, singer Loggins revealed he actually recorded a new version to be mixed in glorious modern-day surround sound, but producers decided to go truly old school and use the original:
«I did re-record 'Danger Zone' to make a 5.0 version that would wrap around the audience. But Tom Cruise really wanted to conjure up the original version, the original feeling. So in the long run, it turned out to be the old track coming back.»
“Danger Zone” is of course
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