16 Facts About Top Gun: Maverick

1.

Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski.

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Top Gun: Maverick premiered at CinemaCon on April 28, 2022, and was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on May 27, 2022, in IMAX, 4DX, ScreenX, and Dolby Cinema.

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Over 30 years after graduating from Top Gun, United States Navy Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a test pilot.

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4.

Top Gun: Maverick learns that he will not take part in the strike; instead, he is to train an elite group of Top Gun graduates assembled by Air Boss Vice Admiral Beau "Cyclone" Simpson.

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5.

Top Gun: Maverick is reluctant to further interfere with Rooster's career, but the alternative is to send him on the extremely dangerous mission.

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6.

Top Gun: Maverick tells his doubts to Iceman who has terminal throat cancer.

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7.

Rooster returns to find that Top Gun: Maverick safely ejected and is being targeted by an Mi-24 helicopter gunship.

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Top Gun: Maverick added that the film is "going to be a competition film, similar to the first one", but clarified it as "a progression for Maverick".

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9.

Marks claimed that the sequel to Top Gun: Maverick Gun was his "dream project" and that the first film was "an iconic film in his memory" which inspired him to pursue his film career.

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10.

Top Gun: Maverick researched the Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35, for the Maverick's script to give an insight of "how Top Gun would be represented in the current period".

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11.

Top Gun: Maverick declined the offer because of his Formula One commitments.

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12.

Top Gun: Maverick explained that "the audience should feel the authenticity, strain, speed and gravitational forces, something that cannot be achieved through soundstage or visual effects, which needed a tremendous amount of effort and work.

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13.

Top Gun: Maverick was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures in the United States on May 27, 2022, with advance screenings starting the day before.

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14.

Top Gun: Maverick added, "At the forefront of this clash is a man named Tom Cruise, who wants nothing less than our jaws on the floor.

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15.

In June 2022, the family of Israeli-Jewish author Ehud Yonay, who wrote the California magazine article "Top Guns" in May 1983 that inspired the first film, sued Paramount for copyright infringement over the release of Top Gun: Maverick and sought damages as well as an injunction against the film's distribution.

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Lawsuit claims that Top Gun: Maverick contains elements similar to the original article and that Paramount continued with the filming, even after receiving notice of the copyright's termination.

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