K.T Simpson
Tom Cruise wasn’t on hand to attend CinemaCon in Vegas today, but studio chiefs were on hand to preview the actor-producer’s upcoming films – both housed by Paramount – “Top Gun : Maverick” and “Mission : Impossible 7”.
The audience was treated to the first reel of the “Top Gun” sequel, along with a new trailer for the November release.
Says Deadline :
In the sequence, Maverick is informed that the Top Gun program is getting shut down. He decides to defy the Admiral (Ed Harris) making the decision to fly to Mach 10. Maverick fires up the jet at dusk in the middle of the desert. He’s warned, “You know what happens if you go through with this.” But Maverick doesn’t care, “I know what happens to everyone else if I don’t,” he says. “Alright, sweetheart, one last ride,” the buckaroo pilot adds.
The plane soars right above Harris’ character’s head, nearly destroying the gate box near him. The Admiral enters the control room, and he’s pissed. Meanwhile, Maverick is cruising toward Mach 10 in the sky.
“He’s the fastest man alive,” says the control booth technician as Maverick pushes toward Mach 9. The whole room is in awe as Lorne Balfe’s heavenly symphonic music plays.
Then as Maverick hits 9.8, it looks like the engine is gonna blow, but he makes Mach 10 and the control room goes wild. Maverick then pushes past 10.1 before his engines blow and the screen in the control room goes dark. It looks like the plane is exploding in mid-air.
Maverick lives. We see him walking into the middle of a country diner, the patrons shocked at a pilot entering.
“Where am I?” he asks. “Earth,” responds a little boy at the diner counter.
In addition to the footage, Paramount also dropped a new trailer today for Top Gun: Maverick at CinemaCon where we see Jon Hamm’s Navy guy giving Maverick a second chance per the request of Val Kilmer’s Iceman.
But another ghost from his past is not so forgiving. Miles Teller, who looks to be Goose’s son, says, “My dad believed in you, I’m not going to make the same mistake.”
According to those in attendees, the film’s title, font and original theme song -‘Danger Zone’ by Kenny Loggins – opens the film!
Speaking on the latter, via a BTS clip, the actor said he filmed a rather dangerous stunt in the Christopher McQuarrie-directed sequel that involves motorcycle jumping off a cliff in Norway.
“This is far and away the most dangerous thing I’ve attempted; we’ve been working on this for years,” said the actor, reprises his Ethan Hunt role in the blockbuster.
“I wanted to do it since I was a little kid,” says the actor in the behind-the-scenes clip with director Christopher McQuarrie and his stunt production ensemble.
“The clouds have to be misty, not foggy,” says McQuarrie for the shot.
In the stunt, says Deadline, Cruise’s Ethan Hunt barrels down a ramp off a cliff and in mid-air lets the bike go and free-falls before his parachute is released.
“The only thing that scares me more is what we’ve got planned for Mission 8,” says McQuarrie.
“Mission : Impossible 7” is set for May 27, 2022.
