TopGun might never have gotten made — and certainly not been such a huge hit — if not for this forgotten car commercial:
remains one of the 1980s most popular and iconic movies. These days it is remembered as this watershed film for Hollywood. It was the breakthrough role for Tom Cruise, the first big hit for director, and the production that cemented Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson as major hitmakers. It’s easy to forget all these years later that the movie was not a sure thing, and that it very nearly didn’t happen several different times, and for several different reasons.
That man wound up being Tony Scott, who eventually garnered a reputation as one of the most stylish directors in Hollywood, but at that time could barely find a job. In the mid-’80s, Scott has only one movie to his credit, a lesbian vampire movie called Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gunif not for a commercial he’d shot a few years earlier.“And in my commercial showreel, I had something for Saab. Saab built the cars in Sweden, and they also built the jets, the Viggen.
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