Tom Cruise didn’t feel the need for speed when director Joseph Kosinski pitched him Top Gun: Maverick ― and it took a desperate 30-minute meeting to convince him otherwise, the director said. Kosinski told Polygon in an interview that he and producer Jerry Bruckheimer flew to Paris to convince Tom to dust off the franchise while he was shooting a Mission: Impossible movie. And I basically had 30 minutes to pitch this film, which I didn’t realise when we were flying over. He emphasised the heavy responsibility Tom’s character Pete “Maverick” Mitchell felt for the lives of other pilots under his tutelage. Tom recorded his first ever opening weekend box office over $100 million, 36 years after the original Top Gun premiered.

Source: Huffington Post May 31, 2022 18:08 UTC