People Top Gun
Top Gun • FROM THE 1986 BLOCKBUSTER TO MAVERICK UP IN THE AIR & BEHIND THE SCENES
Opener • AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE SEQUEL, THE CAST OF YOUNG FLIERS AND WHAT IT TOOK FOR TOM CRUISE TO RETURN TO MOVIE THEATERS AS ‘MAVERICK’ AFTER MORE THAN THREE DECADES
Ready for Takeoff • AFTER 36 YEARS, CAPT. PETE ‘MAVERICK’ MITCHELL RETURNS—IN A CHANGED WORLD
Tom Cruise as Maverick • ‘I WAS THE KID WHO WOULD SNEAK OUT MY WINDOW, CLIMB UP ON THE ROOF AND LOOK AT THE STARS.’ THE ACTOR ON TWO LIFELONG PASSIONS: FLYING AND FILMMAKING (AND WHY HE DOESN’T NEED TO SPEED)
Meet the Cast
Meet Your New Instructor • THE CREATIVE TEAM REVEAL HOW THEY PULLED OFF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN AERIAL SEQUENCES. PLUS: TOM CRUISE’S PLAN TO TURN ACTORS INTO FLIERS. SAYS ONE (REAL) NAVY MAN: ‘EVERYONE THOUGHT HE WAS CRAZY’
Maverick’s High Notes • FOR HIS NEW TAKE ON THE ORIGINAL TOP GUN SCORE, COMPOSER HANS ZIMMER GOT IN A PLANE. THEN JUMPED.
Opener • IN THE SUMMER OF 1986 AN AMBITIOUS MOVIE ABOUT NAVY FLIERS SOARED AT THE BOX OFFICE (AND ON THE RADIO), LAUNCHING THE CAREER OF ITS YOUNG STAR, TOM CRUISE, INTO THE STRATOSPHERE
How It Took Flight • ‘STAR WARS ON EARTH’ PROVED AN IRRESISTIBLE FILM PITCH. BUT GETTING TOP GUN TO THE SCREEN WAS A WHOLE OTHER STORY
Top Gun’s Hot New Star • IN THE SUMMER OF 1986, PEOPLE SPENT TIME WITH TOM CRUISE FOR HIS SECOND BIG FEATURE STORY. HERE’S WHAT THE MAGAZINE—AND THE 23-YEAR-OLD ACTOR—SAID BACK THEN
Sound of the Skies • EVEN IF YOU NEVER SET FOOT IN A MULTIPLEX IN 1986, YOU COULDN’T MISS THE YEAR’S TOP SOUNDTRACK, FULL OF NO. 1 HITS AND AN OSCAR WIN
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What Stars Sing in Bars • THE MAVERICK CAST REVEAL THEIR GO-TO KARAOKE TUNES