On May 27, 2022, the action genre film, Top Gun: Maverick (2022) will soon hit theaters. With Tom Cruise in the lead role, Top Gun: Maverick (2022) is the second installment of the original 1986 film Top Gun. So what is the difference between Top Gun (2022) and Top Gun (1986)?
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) is a film that tells about the figure of Pete ‘Maverick‘ Mitchell who is on a special mission. Told, Maverick is a senior pilot of the United States Navy (US) who returned to the elite Top Gun academic to train young pilots in the mission of destroying a country’s nuclear facilities.
This special mission leaves Maverick, having to face his deepest fears. This mission also demands sacrifices from the members of the elite Top Gun team, which puts Maverick in a difficult position. This indecision makes Maverick have to choose between saving his life and the members of the elite team or dealing with his fears all along.
The film directed by Joseph Kosinski is a sequel to the film Top Gun (1986). The film received a positive rating of 96 percent from 76 reviews movies. Although Top Gun 2 centers on the character Maverick, this film is very different from the previous films, marked by changes in the character of the film.
Reported by screenrant.com, there are quite striking differences between the Top Gun films, which were released in 1986 and 2022. The first Top Gun films, although the storyline that was brought was very traumatic, but the aura that was given tended to be upbeat and cheerful. While judging by the trailer, Top Gun: Maverick has a more complicated and high-octane storyline. In addition, although both films are centered on the same character and theme, the tone of the portrayal of the two has changed, with the film Top Gun (2022) being more serious.
Quoted from polygon.com, the action in Top Gun 2 looks more thrilling. In fact, Tom Cruise revealed that the actors underwent flight training beforehand to act out the action scenes in this film so that the scenes in the film seemed more real. This further strengthens the image of the film Top Gun (2022) which is more tense and tense.
Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski. It was written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, from a story conceived by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. The sequel to Top Gun (1986), the film stars Tom Cruise as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a test pilot, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer. Cruise and Kilmer reprise their roles from the first film, and the film is dedicated to Top Gun director Tony Scott, who died in 2012.
Top Gun: Maverick premiered at CinemaCon on April 28, 2022, and is scheduled to be theatrically released movie in the United States on May 27, 2022, by Paramount Pictures in IMAX, 4DX, ScreenX[and Dolby Cinema. It was scheduled for release on July 12, 2019, but was postponed to “allow the production to work out all the complex flight sequences”. The film was further delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and scheduling conflicts. The film received widespread praise from critics, with many deeming it superior to the original film.