“So on the original movie it was A-6s and F-14s, now it’s F-18s and, F-35s.
That was all shot on the USS Lincoln and the USS Teddy Roosevelt.”
So why did Kosinki decide to so faithfully recreate the first film’s opening sequence?
Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.Scott Garfield/Paramount
“He was a true artist,” says Kosinski.
Watch the opening credit sequence of the originalTop Gunbelow.
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Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.Paramount Pictures
