Top Gun: Maverick producer leaves door open for another sequel

2023-01-16

‘Nobody works harder’: Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer says there is no secret to Tom Cruise’s success and leaves door open for another movie after sequel made $1.5bn

Bruckheimer said: ‘Nobody cares more or is a better actor than Tom Cruise’
Asked about another Top Gun sequel, he said: ‘We’ll have to wait and see’
Bruckheimer was speaking at the Critics Choice Award in LA on Sunday
Maverick, which was nominated for several awards, won Best Cinematography

Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer said ‘nobody works harder than Tom Cruise’ as he left the door open for another sequel after the film’s box office success.

Bruckheimer told reporters at the Critics Choice Awards in LA on Sunday: ‘There’s nobody like him. Nobody works harder, cares more or is a better actor than Tom Cruise.

‘We’re very fortunate that he came back to do another Top Gun in Maverick and made it the worldwide success it’s become.’

Asked whether Cruise, 60, could return for another sequel, Bruckheimer told Fox News Digital: ‘We’ll have to wait and see’.

Tom Cruise plays Capt. Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick. The sequel to the 1986 original – also starring Cruise – raked in $1.489bn at the box office last summer.

The Maverick sequel to the 1986 original – also starring Cruise – raked in $1.489bn at the box office last summer.

Bruckheimer, whose credits include the Pirates of the Caribbean movies and Armageddon, also revealed how actors were filmed experiencing real G forces and trained in F-18 fighter jets.

‘Our actors went through three months of training in various jets. First in a prop plane then an aerobatic prop then in a jet and finally in an F-18, so they can handle all the G forces that the plane puts on, eight or nine G’s a time,’ Bruckheimer told Fox.

‘It worked perfectly because our actors in the plane when we actually filmed it was real and that’s amazing. The fact that they withstood those amounts of G’s and gave a great performance on top of it, it made it a worldwide hit.’

Maverick was nominated for multiple Critics Choice Awards, picking up the gong in the Best Cinematography category, beating the likes of Avatar: The Way of Water and Empire of Light.

The film lost out to Everything Everywhere All at Once in the Best Picture category and Cruise was bested by Brendan Fraser for his performance in The Whale in the best actor category.

Bruckheimer at the Critics Choice Awards in LA on Sunday. He told reporters: ‘There’s nobody like him. Nobody works harder, cares more or is a better actor than Tom Cruise. ‘We’re very fortunate that he came back to do another Top Gun in Maverick and made it the worldwide success it’s become.’

It comes after Hollywood’s top producers named Maverick among among last year’s best films last Thursday – the same day that voting for Oscars nominations got under way.

Bruckheimer and Cruise at the Top Gun premiere at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, France, 18 May 2022

The Producers Guild of America host their own prestigious annual awards each year, and unveiled a 10-film nomination shortlist, which also included Avatar and Marvel superhero sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Avatar has grossed almost $2bn – and the ‘Black Panther’ follow-up some $800 million – at the global box office, as movie theaters mounted a partial recovery in 2022 from devastating pandemic closures.

While producers may have a reputation for chasing box office cash over critical acclaim, the PGA’s 8,000-odd moguls and indie financiers have a very strong record of predicting success at the Academy Awards, which conclude Tinseltown’s expansive award season.

Twelve of the last 15 winners of the best picture Oscar first lifted the PGA’s equivalent award, including the past two victors, CODA and Nomadland.

The PGA happened to release its shortlist this year on the very same day that the voting window opened for Oscars nominations.

The PGA Awards gala will be held on February 25, before the Oscars conclude the Los Angeles award show marathon on March 12.

Critics’ Choice Awards WINNERS 2023: AT A GLANCE

FILM

BEST PICTURE: Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ACTOR: Brendan Fraser – The Whale

BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett – Tár

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

BEST DIRECTOR: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Sarah Polley – Women Talking

BEST COMEDY: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

His moment: Brendan Fraser sobbed as he earned Best Actor for The Whale

TELEVISION

BEST DRAMA SERIES: Better Call Saul (AMC)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul (AMC)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Zendaya – Euphoria (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Giancarlo Esposito – Better Call Saul (AMC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO)

BEST COMEDY SERIES: Abbott Elementary (ABC)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Jeremy Allen White – The Bear (FX)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max) – WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Henry Winkler – Barry (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary (ABC)

BEST LIMITED SERIES: The Dropout (Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout (Hulu) – WINNER

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