The Last Star In Hollywood

43: Top Gun: Maverick

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This week, we feel the need for speed all over again with Joseph Kosinski’s much-delayed, hugely successful Top Gun: Maverick! Is Pete Mitchell the same guy, so many years later? How does the film respond to the legacy of the original? Is Kosinski maybe too good at his job?

Unanswered Questions:

  • Is Top Gun about patriotism? Militarism? Commercialism? All or none of the above?
  • How does the marketing and production material mythologize the making of the film?
  • Is there anything thematic happing in Maverick’s technological regression from the fictional DarkStar to the Boeing F/A-18E to the Grumman F-14?

    • Further reading:

    • Playboy (January, 1990)
    • Budweiser, PBR, Coop F5 Grapefruit, Voodoo Ranger IPA
    • F1 Official Trailer
    • Regal 4DX
    • “‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Cinematographer Pushed Camera Technology Limits to Put Audiences in Pilot’s Seat” (Variety)
    • Tenet
    • “3 Rounds with the Cast of ‘Top Gun: Maverick'” (Entertainment Weekly)
    • “Garth Marenghi – Writing“
    • The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
    • The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule

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      Join us next week as we close out Tom Cruise’s filmography — for now — with Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning!

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