The Most Deceptively Difficult Scene in Top Gun: Maverick

Joseph Kosinski has built a career on attention to detail, from the sleek futuristic worlds of his debut feature, Tron: Legacy, to the gripping action of his firefighting film Only the Brave. But it’s almost hard to wrap your head around the amount of planning, pre-planning, rehearsal, and specific execution that went into the action sequences of Top Gun: Maverick, filmed in actual fighter jets with the actors themselves switching on the six cameras mounted inside the cockpit. But it’s not just the flying scenes that required rigorous storyboarding and effort, as Kosinski explains on this week’s Little Gold Men… Read Full Article