Unlike the original, TopGun: Maverick isn't just a recruitment ad or military propaganda. It's a referendum on Tom Cruise, Superstar — and that's why it works as well as it does
, Bruckheimer claimed he’d get daily 4am calls during production from his lead, going over ideas for better dialogue for both MaverickThis A-list-star-as-alpha-moviemaker methodology would become the blueprint — the Tom-plate — for almost everything that followed over the next 25 years of his screen career. Do everything 10,000 percent, whether it’s racing cars or flying planes or pitching religions or performing your own stunts. That’s his brand now: real-life risky business.
And yet, as you know if you’ve seen director Joseph Kosinki’s superior-in-every-way sequel or even just the trailers that have run for almost two years now — thanks a lot, Covid! — Maverick will get called back into active duty. There’s a dangerous mission involving uranium and a rogue state. Despite the fact that we’re now living in the age of drone warfare, only flesh-and-blood pilots can pull off the bombing mission in this treacherous, mountainous region.
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