Top Gun sequel Maverick is the best cinematic cracker of the year (Showing in Germany: May 26). Hollywood as before! Perhaps not always politically correct, but with plenty of punch and heart.
Again after 36 years: Hollywood star Tom Cruise (59, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell). Producer Jerry Bruckheimer (78): “We have 800 hours of film material” costs? More than 150 million euros.
Lady Gaga was photographed in the hangar for the video for her powerful song “Hold my Hand”. A helicopter rolled in front of her a few meters away. The trick was realPhoto: Interscope Records
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Still very cheap. Because: The Pentagon was involved in script and production. Supply Cruise and Co. With military equipment worth several billion (including the F18 Super Hornet, the unit price is about 90 million euros).
Why aren’t there all the old “Top Gun” stars and why watched China from space while filming in the Nevada desert…
“Goose”: Anthony Edwards (59 today, left) died in 1986 on screenFoto: CBS via Getty Images
difficult relationship
Miles Teller (35 years old) follows in his father’s footsteps in his movie “Goose” (he died in the first part). As a “rooster” fighter pilot, his relationship with his father’s former best friend (a “dissident”) was difficult.
Tyler’s face has prominent scars. They came from a car accident. As a passenger, he survived a horror crash at 130 km/h at the age of 20. The car flipped eight times.
On the back of an aircraft carrier: Tom Cruise (then 23) and Kelly McGills (28) about 37 years ago while filming Top Gun.Photo: working pressure
McGillis has turned his back on Hollywood years ago. Since 2006 she has started doing smaller TV roles again.
This plane made China nervous
The photography aroused the curiosity of the Chinese. Because: In addition to many aircraft known to the US Armed Forces (including the F18 “Super Hornet” and F14 “Tomcat”), the phantom SR-72 “Darkstar” appears.
A hypersonic plane (allegedly traveling at six times the speed of sound) – this does not even exist. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer: “Chinese satellites were rocking around looking closely and we were shooting.”
Scene with hypersonic aircraft at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. The flight was real. However, the plane was digitally processed at a later timePhoto: Paramount Pictures, Germany
Tom Cruise (59): “Top Gun” was the basis of his international career with films such as “Mission: Impossible” and “War of the Worlds,” despite his commitment to the controversial Scientology religious community. Estimated wealth: 515 million euros.Photo: Getty Images, MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS
Kelly McGillis (64): After ‘Top Gun’ there were only smaller TV roles. He now works as a drug addicts counselor in New Jersey.Photo: Blake A. / MEGA, Getty Images
Val Kilmer (62): Uses “Top Gun” as a springboard for other huge roles like “Batman”. In 2017, he developed laryngeal and laryngeal cancer, but is now considered cancer-free.Photo: ddp, Paramount / Kobal / Shutterstock
Meg Ryan (60): After “Top Gun”, he had other global hits such as “Harry and Sally” or “Slilyless in Seattle”. Since 2009, there have been quite a few roles for her, the last of which was seven years ago (“Ithaca”).Foto: OHWOW, CBS via Getty Images