Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski says that Steven Spielberg’s praise of the Paramount Pictures sequel “blew his mind.”
Director Joseph Kosinski said that acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s praise for Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick “blew [his] mind.”
“That’s so kind of Steven to say,” Kosinski told Variety. “All of us, every director here can look at Steven’s movies and find inspiration or some movie that touched them and made them want to be a director… So to hear that from him, it makes me so proud and so happy for Tom because I know how hard he worked on this movie.”
Spielberg recently reunited with Maverick star Tom Cruise — the two collaborated on 2002’s Minority Report and 2005’s War of the Worlds — and told the actor that the Top Gun sequel “saved Hollywood’s ass and, you might have saved theatrical distribution.” He added, “Maverick might have saved the entire theatrical industry.” While Spielberg attributed Maverick‘s success to the survival of the theater industry, Kosinski added that he, personally, “could never say that, no, no.”
Top Gun: Maverick Smashes Box Office Records
Since its debut in theaters, Maverick has consistently broken box office records and accrued a worldwide gross of over $1.4 billion. After the sequel officially surpassed the domestic earnings for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War, it was solidified as the sixth highest-earning film of all time at the domestic box office.
“If we put good stories on the big screen, the audience will come in. That’s what I’m trying to do. I know that a lot of people are working hard on telling great stories that have to be seen in theaters. So that’s what we’re all working on,” Kosinski told Variety. “We didn’t think award. We didn’t think about box office. All [the entire crew] thought about was just telling the best version of the story we had. And this has been a wonderful surprise for all of us.”
Maverick, Paramount Pictures’ long-awaited sequel to the original 1986 Top Gun, starred Cruise’s titular Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, while Teller appeared as Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, portrayed by Anthony Edwards in the original film. Set nearly 30 years after the original 1986 film, Maverick follows the titular pilot after he is enlisted to train a new generation of pilots. Cruise and Val Kilmer reprised their roles from the original Top Gun, and the new film also starred Jennifer Connelly and Jon Hamm.
Directed by Kosinski, from a screenplay by Peter Craig, Justin Marks and Eric Warren Singer, Top Gun: Maverick is now available to stream on Paramount+.
Source: cbr.com
