This week, we feel the need for speed all over again with Joseph Kosinski’s much-delayed, hugely successful Top Gun: Maverick! Is Pete Mitchell the same guy, so many years later? How does the film respond to the legacy of the original? Is Kosinski maybe too good at his job?
Unanswered Questions:
- Is Top Gun about patriotism? Militarism? Commercialism? All or none of the above?
- How does the marketing and production material mythologize the making of the film?
- Is there anything thematic happing in Maverick’s technological regression from the fictional DarkStar to the Boeing F/A-18E to the Grumman F-14?
Further reading:
- Playboy (January, 1990)
- Budweiser, PBR, Coop F5 Grapefruit, Voodoo Ranger IPA
- F1 Official Trailer
- Regal 4DX
- “‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Cinematographer Pushed Camera Technology Limits to Put Audiences in Pilot’s Seat” (Variety)
- Tenet
- “3 Rounds with the Cast of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’” (Entertainment Weekly)
- “Garth Marenghi – Writing“
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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