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Top Gun: Maverick" executive producer Tommy Harper also attended the event, and spoke about creating two categories for the shoot. He said:
"We kind of devised production schedule. Okay, we're going to shoot the ground story like every other movie is shot with a full crew. And then we had our aerial crew... We got it down to such a fine, detailed amount of people — maybe 70, which is not that many people — who'd travel when we shot aerials. We scaled-down as efficiently as we could to shoot the aerial story separate from the ground."
Location manager Mike Fantasia added that they had to coordinate with the military for the flight part of the film, as they were sometimes taking those F18s to 650,000 miles per hour, which he said isn't something you can do just anywhere. He said they looked at military operating areas, and had to figure out which ones would work for the script.
The entire thing sounds like a wild ride, and far more complicated than it might seem when you first watch the film. It really makes you appreciate the behind-the-scenes craft of movie-making on this level, in addition to balancing the nostalgia with a modern take on the story.
"Top Gun: Maverick" is in theaters now.
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