Tom Cruise didn’t want to make ‘Top Gun’ sequel, had to be convinced
nypost.com“Top Gun: Maverick.”Revealing Cruise “really didn’t want to” make a sequel to the hit 1986 blockbuster, Kosinski met with the actor in Paris where he had just half an hour to pitch the project.“So I read the script, I had some ideas, and Jerry [Bruckheimer] liked those ideas.
He said, ‘You know what, you gotta go pitch this to Tom directly,'” Kosinski told Polygon.“We flew to Paris, where Tom was shooting Mission: Impossible, we got about a half-hour of his time between setups.”“And I basically had 30 minutes to pitch this film, which I didn’t realize when we were flying over.
But when I got there, I found that Tom really didn’t want to make another Top Gun,” he explained.“It’s one of those moments as a director, you have one on every film, where you’re on the spot to make a case for why this movie should be made.
I had 30 minutes to do it,” he told the outlet.“When I got there, I found that Tom really didn’t want to make another ‘Top Gun.'”Once Kosinski wrapped up his pitch, he recalled Cruise picking up his phone and calling the head of Paramount Pictures.“We’re making another Top Gun,” Cruise told execs, according to Kosinski.
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