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Top Gun: Maverick with Joseph Kosinski and Jason Reitman (Ep. 360)

Publish Date: 2022/6/16
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Director Joseph Kosinski discusses his new film, Top Gun: Maverick, with fellow director Jason Reitman in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, they speak about how Top Gun came into his life (the first and second time), convincing Tom Cruise to hop back into the cockpit, and the complex process of shooting the actors while flying inside the jets.

The sequel film takes us back down the highway to the danger zone as pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who has spent more than thirty years dodging a promotion that would ground him, is called up on to use his skills to train a detachment of graduates for a perilous special assignment.

Please note: spoilers are included.

See photos and a summary of this event below:

https://www.dga.org/Events/2022/July2022/TopGunMaverick_QnA_0622.aspx