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UNITED STATES · 2022
Top Gun: Maverick
Synopsis
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Cinematic DNA
He told IndieWire that he found that the practical work on ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Dune’ was a “huge inspiration” during the production of ‘The Creator.’
I looked at films like Days of Heaven, Lawrence of Arabia, and the original Top Gun. Those three films were always on my mind when thinking about how to frame something or how to shoot something.
— Joseph Kosinski · Vulture: 'How Top Gun: Maverick’s Filmmakers Put Tom Cruise in a Real Fighter Jet'
Films with Similar Themes
military aviation · legacy and redemption · mentorship · sacrifice and duty · personal demons
