Somehow, this blockbuster was under even more pressure while shooting. When you shoot a Tom Cruise action movie, there's a lot of pressure. Those movies are expensive and have to clean up at the box office. Director Joseph Kosinski is not a stranger to this world. He's worked with Cruise before on Oblivion, but nothing prepared him for working on the sequel to Top Gun, Top Gun 2: Maverick. This was a high-octane adventure they shot in real planes. The filmmaker tells Empire in the new issue, “Out of a 12- or 14-hour day, you might get 30 seconds of good footage. But it was so hard-earned. It just took a very long time to get it all. Months and months of aerial shooting. We shot as much footage as the three Lord of the Rings movies combined. I think it was 800 hours of footage.” That's an incredible amount of work. It's hard to imagine even editing and focusing on the shots you want from it. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 14 April, 2022