Tom Cruise arrived at the TopGunMaverick premiere in style, riding in a helicopter as the franchise's iconic theme played. 😎
Tom Cruise arrives in a helicopter at the San Diego premiere of Top Gun: Maverick in a new video. Cruise first appeared as Naval aviator Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Tony Scott’s Top Gun in 1986.
The sequel picks up over three decades later and sees Maverick still a Captain, having dodged advancement in rank to avoid being grounded. He’s ordered to return to the Fighter Weapons School on a special assignment to train a detachment of Top Gun graduates—which includes Rooster. In real life, Cruise developed a program for his younger Top Gun 2 co-stars, teaching them how to fly in the F/A-18s, handle the Gs, and often work their cameras in the cockpit.
Tom Cruise just arrived to the #TopGunMaverick premiere in a helicopter he flew himself pic.twitter.com/uA4X0UL4DZCruise is a certified pilot with hours upon hours of flight experience and has also done many jumps. In Mission: Impossible – Fallout, in addition to piloting a helicopter in an invigorating chase, he also jumped from a plane. Cruise is renowned for performing his death-defying stunts, many of which involve his willingness to get into a cockpit and truly fly on camera .
Cruise and his co-stars’ real-world flight experience brings an element of credibility to Top Gun: Maverick, which looks to deliver some awe-inspiring aerial cinematography. The early buzz for the film has certainly been favorable. After waiting decades for the green light and having been delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19, this sequel to the 1986 cult classic, Top Gun, has been a long time coming.
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