{"id":20631,"date":"2020-03-18T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=20631"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T21:25:26","slug":"cruise-control-maverick-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=20631","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Control: Maverick Takes Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FDBC14BA-4192-4913-AE5B-15EA804D4064-1024x452.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FDBC14BA-4192-4913-AE5B-15EA804D4064-1024x452.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FDBC14BA-4192-4913-AE5B-15EA804D4064-300x132.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FDBC14BA-4192-4913-AE5B-15EA804D4064-768x339.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FDBC14BA-4192-4913-AE5B-15EA804D4064.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cHighway to the danger zone\u201d<\/em> has never been more true than now for the filming of <strong>Top Gun: Maverick<\/strong>. That\u2019s because the actors actually got in the <em>F-18 cockpits<\/em> themselves unlike the 1986 original film. If they hadn\u2019t, <em>\u2018Maverick<\/em>\u2019 wouldn\u2019t have taken off at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/tom-cruise-top-gun-maverick-exclusive\/\">Empire<\/a> reached out to talk to Tom Cruise and Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer on how they wanted to approach the sequel. <em>Cruise<\/em> laid out the ultimatum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWe just started talking, and I realised that there were things that we could accomplish cinematically. And I started getting excited about this big challenge of, \u2018How do we do it?\u2019 So I said to Jerry, \u2018I\u2019ll do it if\u2026\u2019 meaning, I\u2019m not going to do the CGI stuff.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Bruckheimer<\/em> recalls their attempts in the F-14 cockpits back in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWhat\u2019s different about this movie is that [in Top Gun] we put the actors in the F-14s and we couldn\u2019t use one frame of it, except some stuff on Tom, because they all threw up. It\u2019s hysterical to see their eyes roll back in their heads. So everything was done on a gimbal. But in this movie, Tom wanted to make sure the actors could actually be in the F-18s.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can tell Cruise is very much the blockbuster action star of our generation. Hearing that he himself would be in the cockpit of an F-18 fighter jet doesn\u2019t surprise anyone. But to make sure all the other actors were able to handle the g-force as well, just shows his dedication to giving the fans a movie that will pull you in and have you gripping your armrests tight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI said to the studio, \u2018You don\u2019t know how hard this movie\u2019s going to be. No-one\u2019s ever done this before,\u2019\u201d the star laughs. \u201cThere\u2019s never been an aerial sequence shot this way. I don\u2019t know if there ever will be again, to be honest.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/E0D10CB2-C2AC-4AE2-AACD-ABF45BD15C90-1024x512.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20636\" width=\"592\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/E0D10CB2-C2AC-4AE2-AACD-ABF45BD15C90-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/E0D10CB2-C2AC-4AE2-AACD-ABF45BD15C90-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/E0D10CB2-C2AC-4AE2-AACD-ABF45BD15C90-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/E0D10CB2-C2AC-4AE2-AACD-ABF45BD15C90-1000x500.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/E0D10CB2-C2AC-4AE2-AACD-ABF45BD15C90.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><figcaption>Danny Ramirez, Miles Teller, and Monica Barbaro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise<\/em> as Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell leading a new group of young recruits in the Top Gun class. Barring any Covid-19 setbacks, our summer blockbuster <strong>Top Gun: Maverick<\/strong> is set to be jetting into theaters on June 24th, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMaverick goes&#8230;inverted. Literally. Cruise takes his stunts into the skies for the Top Gun sequel\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=20631\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cruise Control: Maverick Takes Flight&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":20640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1896,1898,2035,1897,1893,1895,1891,1892,1894],"class_list":["post-20631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-ed-harris","tag-jennifer-connelly","tag-jerry-bruckheimer","tag-jon-hamm","tag-maverick","tag-miles-teller","tag-tom-cruise","tag-top-gun","tag-val-kilmer","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cruise Control: Maverick Takes Flight - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=20631\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cruise Control: Maverick Takes Flight - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maverick goes...inverted. 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