It's a good thing none of the firings stuck! By now, you know the punchline of the joke. Top Gun was a breakout hit in the late 1980s and rocketed Tom Cruise into bona fide movie star history. It also propelled Tony Scott, the film's director, into the Hollywood A-list, making him a hip director with keen visuals that would go on to make some of our most memorable movies. But all of that almost didn't happen. It turns out that Scott was basically fired from Top Gun three times, yet somehow survived on set and kept shooting the movie. He revealed these details in the director's commentary of Top Gun, which he recorded shortly before his death in 2012. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 24 May, 2021