Tom Cruise paid the US Navy $11,300 an hour to use his fighters in 'Top Gun'

 Tom Cruise paid the US Navy $11,300 an hour to use his fighters in 'Top Gun'

 

 

 

Tom Cruise, star and producer of the New Top Gun Movie, also paid the US Navy $11,374 an hour to use the US Army's F/A-18 Super Hornets fighters on the set of the film, according to Bloomberg. The navy agreed to transfer fighter planes under the condition that the actor did not touch the controls of the fighters at any time.

 

 

 

The actor, famous for performing his own stunts in action movies like Mission Impossible, insisted that all the actors playing the pilots in the long-delayed movie Top Gun: Maverick Combat pores the uneso-built Boeing that they can understand what It feels like being a pilot flying under the strain of immense gravitational forces.

 

 

Cruise, 59, had also flown on a plane for the original Top Gun movie, a huge hit in 1986. Actor's end up making more than a dozen outings for the new movie, but a Pentabegon regulation banned The oath can be small weapons in training settings, according to Glen Roberts, head of the Pentagon's entertainment media office. Instead, the actors traveled behind the F/A-18 pilots after completing Required training on how to eject from the plane in the event of decoy and how to survive at sea.

 

 

 

Roberts explained that the real pilots in Top Gun are not the arrogant rule-breakers who appear in the film, people who were "never found in naval aviation," but rather they are scholars of the air who strive during during during in the Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, where the Top Gun school is located.

 

 

 

A film "does not have to be a love letter to the Military" to win Pentagon Cooperation, Roberts points out, but it does "need to uphold the integrity of the military." Filmmakers must have funding and Distribution for their project and be prepared and submit their script for Military review. Although the Pentagon can request changes, Roberts said he was not aware of any in Top Gun: Maverick.

 

 

 

Roberts told Bloomberg that in his years working for the Pentagon media office, he had never seen the level of excitement generated around Top Gun: Maverick. The film is expected to generate about $130 million in ticket sales in the US and Canada over the weekend, not including the Memorial Day holiday, according to a Boxoffice estimate.

 

 

 

That would make it one of the highest grossing movies of the last two years. The film will be released this week after several delays due to the Coronavirus pandemic.