Wholesome photo gun pointing at camera5/20/2023 Probably the most dangerous and daring is in the middle of the film where Maverick flies the course to prove the mission can be flown. Heading into production, was there any one shot or sequence that you thought would be the most difficult to pull off? I was a bit of a mad scientist with my projects, and I think that is very similar to what my job is now in a weird way. I am very lucky to have grown up in that time. I built radio-controlled model airplanes and rockets, and I was constantly crashing and launching things in my yard. ![]() I grew up in Iowa, and it was pre-Internet, in the ’80s. What is it about airplanes that drew you to them? I actually built a real airplane after my senior year of college. I was obsessed with planes as a kid, and then went to school for aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering. How familiar were you with the inner workings of planes prior to making this movie? Tom did the first test flight with the whole camera, and when we got the footage back, we thought, “Okay, maybe we are on to something here.” Then we got custom lenses, and we custom manufactured lens hoods, and they fit all of the parameters the Navy required, and they passed all of the tests for Gs, speed and ejection, and the lawyers signed off. So, Claudio and I sat with them and pointed at every piece of equipment in the back of an F-18 and asked if it needed that piece to fly and when they said “no”, we said: “Pull it out.” So we made a lot of space to get the recorders in there, and Sony had come out with this new camera called the Realto, which is a very small Imax-quality camera. At first, they said it would never fit, there was no room. The choreography and how to capture it was a 15-month science experiment with Claudio and his crew working closely with the Navy to convince it that it was safe to put six cameras in there. The script is the story of the action sequences. How did the technology to allow filming inside the planes come about? Because everyone is in the plane, it opens the whole movie up. The first thought was, “Can I shoot Tom in an F-18 for real?” Which then became, “Can I shoot everyone in F-18s?” So, Tom designed a course that got everyone into “Tom Shape” to be able to get into those Super Hornets and shoot the scenes. We had to capture flight in a way that had never been done before. I hope people notice that, because women do fly for Top Gun now.Īnd then from an aerial sequence point of view, I had to innovate in the same way Tony Scott did. I added “men and women” to the opening paragraph. Well, everyone is saying it is the exact same as the first film, but it’s not. And the score, Harold Faltermeyer’s score, is as iconic to me as Star Wars, which is why wanted to start the film in the same way as the first film. Our screenwriting team did a great job of figuring that out with dogfight football. It was up to us to figure out how we integrate that into our storyline, so we aren’t doing it just for the sake of doing it. ![]() After that - it’s funny because when people heard I was working on it, the most common question people would ask me was “Is there going to be a volleyball scene?” It was engrained from the beginning that there had to be something like it in the film. ![]() The first thing was Maverick, so that is where I started with Tom, getting him to agree to come back. In your mind, what had to be in a Top Gun sequel? It had that soundtrack that played all summer, and everyone had the aviator jackets and the Ray-Bans. Jerry pulled him out of art films, so it looked different. And it didn’t look like any blockbuster movie Tony Scott had such a distinct style. ![]() It was the perfect age to see that movie, and I had always loved aviation, so it was right up my alley in terms of interests. I saw it in the theater when I was 12 years old in Martial Town, Iowa, where I grew up. Prior to making this movie, what was your personal relationship with Top Gun? Prior to its festival debut, the director talked to THR about adding women to the cockpit, fitting cameras into F-18s and the question about the sequel that people wouldn’t stop asking (Hint: It was about volleyball). 'Gangs of Lagos' Director Jáde Osiberu on Making Nigeria's First Gangster Epic
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