![]() ![]() So you're putting a lot of responsibility and trust in our cast, but they're incredible people.” ![]() The biggest challenge is not being there to give feedback, obviously. “But once they pulled away, I didn't see them until they came back an hour later. “I would be there on the flight line, setting up the cameras all the way until the canopy closed”, says Kosinski. Because once the planes took off, the entire scene was purely in the hands of the actors and their pilots. Preparation was key for Kosinski, who had to meticulously plan every single motion the planes would make while up in the sky. I mean, what they were doing for us in this film, obviously safety was the most important thing, but the professionalism and the skill they exhibited in the aircraft was pretty mind-blowing.” And every day, they showed us why they are who they are. We were working with Top Gun, the real Top Gun, and so we knew we were working with the best of the best. It was a huge team of people to pull this off. So yeah, they were serving as cameramen and women on this film as well. The naval aviators, we had to talk to them about movie making, light, altitude, speed, angles that we wanted to get. “We had air-to-air, we had cameras on the outside of the jet. Working with the Navy, it was 15 months to figure out how to get the cameras in these things.” But yeah, this was taking it to a whole new level in terms of speed and complexity in terms of these machines. He did an aerial sequence in American Made, he did a helicopter sequence in Fallout. ![]() So we definitely benefited from his experience. “Tom's been making movies for 40 years and done big aerial sequences, so he knew how difficult it was going to be to capture all of this. Fortunately, Kosinski and the crew had decades of action-movie experience on their side. Working out how these highly ambitious aerial sequences would actually be shot was another thing entirely. Working out training for the actors and getting them flight-ready was one thing. It's still tremendously difficult and taxing, but at least they were able to get through it and do what they needed to do and capture these scenes.” It took three months for them to go through it, and that doesn't mean it was easy for them to be in the F/A-18. So he designed a program that would get them as ready as they could be to be in a Super Hornet. He's done aerial sequences in movies for years. “Tom designed a three-month training course for them to go through because he had shot the first Top Gun”, explains Kosinski. It really was quite tough, but the only way this film happens is if you have somebody like Tom dedicating as much time and effort to us.” “What Tom does for fun, I think is other people's hell. And before any of the actors could even step inside the planes they’d call their sets for the foreseeable future, a rigorous Navy-approved boot camp lay ahead. So we wanted to capture every bit of that and shooting it for real allowed us to do that.”Ĭapturing these scenes was never going to be a walk in the park though. You can't fake what it looks like to be in one of these fighter jets. “I think when you see the film, you really feel what it's like to be a Top Gun pilot, and you can't fake that,” states Kosinski. ![]()
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