Top Gun 2 Director Talks Recreating Original Movie's Iconic Beach Scene
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski discusses recreating the original movie's iconic beach volleyball scene. Tom Cruise has returned to one of his most popular roles as Pete «Maverick» Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to Top Gun, the 1986 Tony Scott-directed blockbuster about a group of U.S. Navy fighter pilots in an elite flight training school. The original movie was released to mixed reviews from critics, but proved to be a massive hit with fans, pushing it to the top of the box office charts that year and making it one of the defining films of the decade.
During the original film, Mitchell and his wingman Nick «Goose» Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) take a break from training and play volleyball against Tom «Iceman» Kazansky (Val Kilmer) and Ron «Slider» Kerner (Rick Rossovich). Although brief, the Top Gun volleyball scene became one of the most memorable moments in the film, with three of the four flyboys shirtless and oiled up in the sun. They pose and exhibit their muscular physiques in slow-motion as Kenny Loggins' aptly named song «Playing with the Boys» plays over the action.
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In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Kosinski shares details of recreating the memorable beach scene in Top Gun: Maverick. Kosinski explains that, once he took the job as director, people immediately began asking what he will do to pay homage to the original Top Gun volleyball scene. In the upcoming movie, the pilot trainees take to the sand and play football in wet jeans. Check out Kosinski's full comments below:
Yes. That was one of those scenes that, when people heard I was starting to prep this movie, everyone was asking me about the beach scene. I knew that was something
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