Where Are They Now? Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer

Feeling the necessity for pace! Ever since its debut virtually 4 a long time prior, High Gun has been thought of an American basic — and it lastly bought a sequel.

The movie, which was launched Might 16, 1986, follows a bunch of High Gun Naval Fighters as they study to coach and refine their elite flying expertise. When hotshot pilot Maverick (Tom Cruise) joins the squad, his reckless conduct places him at odds along with his fellow pilots — particularly “cool man” Iceman (Val Kilmer). With the assistance of his pal Goose (Anthony Edwards), Maverick units off to not simply be the highest fighter in his class however to win the love of the academy’s flight teacher, Charlotte Blackwood (Kelly McGillis).

The motion flick was an immediate basic and impressed a era to affix the armed forces, with the U.S. Navy reporting a 500 p.c enhance in admissions that very same 12 months. Directed by Tony Scott, the film went on to win an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 1987 for Greatest Authentic Music – “Hazard Zone by Kenny Loggins.

The sequel to the journey movie, which debuted on Might 27, 2022, serves as an ode to its predecessor. Joseph Kosinski, who took over directing the franchise from Scott, defined the nerves he felt as a newcomer paying homage to the unique whereas additionally making one thing new for viewers to take pleasure in. (Scott died by suicide in August 2012.)

“It’s slightly nerve-wracking, As a result of we all know we love the movie, however you simply by no means understand how an viewers goes to react — particularly to one thing so beloved,” the Iowa native defined in a Might 2022 interview with Display screen Rant. “Everybody has their very own model or reminiscence of the primary movie or what they liked about it. I hope folks see how a lot we revere the primary movie and on the similar time, we needed to inform our personal story.”

Cruise, for his half, instructed The Sunday Venture that very same month that his dream was to discover a method to make the follow-up movie even higher than what got here earlier than it — as soon as the time was proper.

“I used to be considering of the audiences, of what can we do to essentially leisure everybody and determine this factor out,” the actor instructed the outlet about revisiting the movie so a few years later. “Earlier than the unique opened there was discuss of [making a sequel] … and as a younger actor, I wasn’t able to do it. I used to be educating myself in cinema and story and as time went on, yearly I’d launch a film, folks could be like, ‘What about High Gun?’ So I’d go and assume, ‘What may I do?’ I’ve at all times seemed for an fascinating story. … I felt like [Miles Teller as Goose’s son Bradley Bradshaw] was a [worthy] emotional story.”

Scroll under to see the place the unique forged of High Gun is in the present day: