Top Gun: Maverick director Joe Kosinski has spoken about the movie's astonishing practical effects, and how one shot could only be filmed a single time... because it destroyed the set.
During an interview with IGN's Simon Cardy, Kosinski and star Miles Teller explained how Top Gun: Maverick's breathtaking aerial sequences were achieved using unprecedented practical effects. Kosinski admitted they had to ride into the danger zone to execute some of the incredible flying scenes, noting that one shot even blew away the set, inadvertently leaving them with a single take to use.
"The scene where [stealth plane] Darkstar flies over Ed Harris, it destroyed the set," Kosinski said, highlighting a single shot that can be seen in the gif below. "You watch it rip the roof off the guard shack. That was not planned. That was a one-take thing where we destroyed the set and that's the only shot we got and that's in the movie."
It's perhaps no surprise that the fictional Darkstar caused so much damage – the plane's design was so realistic that China may have moved a satellite to keep tabs on it.
Kosinski chose to use practical effects as opposed to CG for this movie because he wanted to capture the feeling of being a Top Gun pilot by "shooting it for real." However, it required a lot of time and dedication from the cast and crew – star Tom Cruise created a rigorous, Navy-approved boot camp to prepare his co-stars before the cameras started rolling.
You can read much more about the huge amount of work that went into the movie's practical effects in our full interview article, or by watching the video version below:
Kosinski previously revealed that he shot over 800 hours of footage for the movie, and there's no doubt that the unprecedented extent that Kosinski and the team went to in order to film Maverick in the most realistic way possible leads to quite the cinematic experience — one that Cruise was determined to see play out on the big screen rather than streaming services.
Top Gun: Maverick will be released worldwide on May 27. This decades-later sequel to Tony Scott's Top Gun features Tom Cruise's return as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell alongside Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Ed Harris, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, and Greg Tarzan Davis.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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During an interview with IGN's Simon Cardy, Kosinski and star Miles Teller explained how Top Gun: Maverick's breathtaking aerial sequences were achieved using unprecedented practical effects. Kosinski admitted they had to ride into the danger zone to execute some of the incredible flying scenes, noting that one shot even blew away the set, inadvertently leaving them with a single take to use.
"The scene where [stealth plane] Darkstar flies over Ed Harris, it destroyed the set," Kosinski said, highlighting a single shot that can be seen in the gif below. "You watch it rip the roof off the guard shack. That was not planned. That was a one-take thing where we destroyed the set and that's the only shot we got and that's in the movie."
It's perhaps no surprise that the fictional Darkstar caused so much damage – the plane's design was so realistic that China may have moved a satellite to keep tabs on it.
Kosinski chose to use practical effects as opposed to CG for this movie because he wanted to capture the feeling of being a Top Gun pilot by "shooting it for real." However, it required a lot of time and dedication from the cast and crew – star Tom Cruise created a rigorous, Navy-approved boot camp to prepare his co-stars before the cameras started rolling.
You can read much more about the huge amount of work that went into the movie's practical effects in our full interview article, or by watching the video version below:
Kosinski previously revealed that he shot over 800 hours of footage for the movie, and there's no doubt that the unprecedented extent that Kosinski and the team went to in order to film Maverick in the most realistic way possible leads to quite the cinematic experience — one that Cruise was determined to see play out on the big screen rather than streaming services.
Top Gun: Maverick will be released worldwide on May 27. This decades-later sequel to Tony Scott's Top Gun features Tom Cruise's return as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell alongside Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Ed Harris, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, and Greg Tarzan Davis.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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