Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer on the flight footage that made everyone throw up
gamesradar.comWhen Tom Cruise was first approached about a Top Gun sequel, he had his reservations. The actor wanted to wait until the technology caught up with what he wanted to accomplish; he wanted the cast to fly the jets and, importantly, for the footage to be useable.
"In the first movie we put the actors up in F-14s and they all had their heads between their legs, they were just throwing up, it was a disaster, we couldn’t use anything," executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells Total Film. "The only thing we could use was some footage of Tom because he's somebody who can deal with it. It was a real challenge to do what we did."
For the sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, the first hurdle was finding the right actors for the job. The movie introduces a new crop of Top Gun graduates, who are brought together for a top-secret, highly dangerous mission. Miles Teller leads the cast as Goose’s son Rooster and is joined by Glen Powell as Hangman, Lewis Pullman as Bob, Monica Barbaro as Phoenix, Jay Ellis as Payback, Danny Ramirez as Fanboy, and Greg Tarzan Davis as Coyote.
Director Joseph Kosinski along with Bruckheimer and Cruise led a huge casting search. Being able to go up in the planes was a key stipulation for the actors – and quite understandably, not everyone was up for it. "A lot of actors said, 'No, thank you. I'll do it on a gimbal airplane,'" Bruckheimer explains. "Because it's dangerous, obviously. So we got the best of the bunch."
Cruise then compiled a months-long process to prepare the new young stars to handle the g-force pressure. This began with a prop plane, so the actors could get used to the movements, before getting in a jet to build up their resistance to the pressure on their bodies. This all meant that by the time
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