Couple of months back Hollywood action film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ released which was a sequel to the first film ‘Top Gun’. Moreover, the sequel has been released after a span of 36 years. But, with the new and previous, some things have definitely changed in the concept of filmmaking.
Top Gun was given birth based on the 1983 article “Top Guns” by Ehud Yonay, which was adapted into the eponymous 1986 film, written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.
The first one, Top Gun, was a film which took the global box office through a storm and almost took our breath away as well. Well, firstly, the film is real, if we have to go into technical names then, United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program (SFTI Program) or the exact would just be, TOPGUN.
When the film hit screens, it received mix reviews. The Jerry Bruckheimer produced film was made on a budget of 15 million and it made a business of 357 million at the box office.
The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for “Take My Breath Away”, performed by Berlin
As far as Maverick is concerned, the 170 million budget film earned more than 1 billion worldwide and was a complete Tsunami at the Box Office.
Now, lets hear out some interesting facts about the Top Gun franchise:
- Students of the Real TOPGUN School get fined for quoting the Film
- The US Navy have used both films as Recruitment tools
- Its a fact that Top Gun (1986) launched the home video industry
- Actors had to shoot the topless beach scene in Top Gun: Maverick twice
- Another fact is that Miles Teller wasn’t born when the first Top Gun had come out
- The actors had to go through intensive flight training for both movies
- The planes had costed more than $11,000/ hour for rent.
Also, Hot Shots, a 1991 film was a comedy spoof of Top Gun.
