Top Gun 2 Director Explains Why Sequel Opens the Same Way as Original
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski explains why the sequel has the same style opening as the original. The first Top Gun was released in 1986, helping to launch the careers of both Tom Cruise and director Tony Scott. The film featured an iconic soundtrack that has remained a defining aspect of the film, including the score by Harold Faltermeyer, who crafted the Top Gun theme. The opening sequence features footage of F-14 fighter jets taking off from an aircraft carrier while Faltermeyer's score plays over it before leading intoKenny Loggins' «Danger Zone,» another song that became synonymous with the film (and is also featured in the sequel).
Another aspect of Top Gun's opening that featured prominently was the opening card, which outlined the background of Top Gun as it relates to real life, relaying how the actual school the film is based on was formed on March 3rd, 1969 by the U.S. Navy. The purpose of the school was to teach the art of aerial combat to the top one percent of pilots in the Navy, ensuring that they are best fighter pilots in the world. The elite school was originally called the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, but was referred to as Top Gun by the pilots. Today, the program remains, but has been renamed The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (SFTI program) and is still referred to as Top Gun unofficially.
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In an interview with THR, Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski says that the Faltermeyer score was a big influence in starting the film off the same as the first, as he considers it as iconic as Star Wars' theme. While the same piece of Top Gun theme music that played in the
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