Watch Tom Cruise Really Fly A Fighter Jet In Top Gun 2 BTS Video
Tom Cruise shows off his flying skills in a new behind-the-scenes video for his upcoming action film Top Gun: Maverick. Cruise returns to the role of Pete «Maverick» Mitchell in the highly-anticipated sequel to his cult classic hit Top Gun, a film about a squadron of US Navy pilots at the elite TOPGUN training program. Released in 1987 to mixed reviews, the Tony Scott-directed film was loved by audiences and became the highest-grossing movie of the year.
Cruise returns to the Top Gun franchise for the sequel, and Maverick is now in charge of training new pilots for a special mission under the orders of Tom «Iceman» Kazansky, played by Val Kilmer, who reprises his role. Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis, and Monica Barbaro join the ranks as trainees and are rounded out by Miles Teller, who plays Lt. Bradley «Rooster» Bradshaw, the son of Nick «Goose» Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), Maverick's wingman from the original film. Initially scheduled to be released in 2019, due to the difficulties of shooting in real planes and the eventual COVID-19 pandemic, the film was pushed back to 2022.
Related: Top Gun 2: Why Iceman Outranks Maverick In The Sequel
Now, Tom Cruise shares a behind-the-scenes video of Top Gun: Maverick showcasing the actor flying a fighter jet during filming. With a camera mounted in the cockpit of a F/A-18 and pointed directly at Cruise's face, the actor fights the acceleration forces as he pulls the jet over a mountainous landscape. The actor describes that he only wanted to make a sequel to Top Gun if he had the right story and technology has developed far enough to easily accommodate actors in real planes so they can "delve deeper into the experience of a fighter pilot."
Read more on screenrant.com
