Top Gun: Maverick Shot 800 Hours Of Footage For The Tom Cruise Sequel
Top Gun: Maverick director, Joseph Kosinski, has revealed that he believes he filmed over 800 hours of footage for the action-drama sequel. Kosinski joined the sequel to the Tom Cruise-led 1986 classic, Top Gun, in June 2017. The long-awaited sequel will finally debut in theaters on May 27, 2022, following numerous delays from its originally estimated July 2019 release date.
Following on from the original movie, Maverick will see Cruise's Captain Pete «Maverick» Mitchell reluctantly be brought in to train a new generation of Top Gun candidates ahead of a secretive specialized assignment, forcing him to consider his trajectory in life, as well as one of his greatest mistakes. Fans got a new glimpse at the sequel ahead of its release in the form of a new Top Gun: Maverick trailer at the end of March, giving a tease of the next chapter in Maverick's story alongside impressive aerial stunts, but the film's director has now teased the incredible amount of footage captured for the upcoming movie.
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Speaking to EMPIRE, Kosinski and Cruise discussed the lengths the production took to make sure that they captured all the footage they might have required for Top Gun: Maverick. The director estimated that over 800 hours of footage was shot for the sequel, suggesting that the amount of footage captured surpassed the entirety of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Cruise explained that the impressive amount of footage shot was due to the film's complicated external aerial shooting and cockpit shots where actors required additional instructions, with the production wanting to make the most of their limited shooting time in the planes. Check out Kosinski and Cruise's responses below:
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