Val Kilmer later made a movie "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" in which he played a flamingly gay private detective. While doing publicity for that movie, an interviewer asked him if he'd ever "played gay" before. He said, "you mean besides Top Gun?" As an aside, KKBB contains peak hotness Michelle Monaghan.
as long as there's ridiculous, over the top characters and volleyball, I can accept that. I think the days of seeing actual fighter jets is movies are over, unfortunately. Though, given Cruise's track record with practical stunt work he might insist on it.
President of some division of my company was talking in a meeting this morning and said "...the list is long and distinguished." I was pretty much tuned out after that.
Navy is always willing to allow Hollywood to pimp out their stuff for a movie. My brother's ship was used for like three separate movies and film crews
agreed. The Navy will probably do it for free considering all the great publicity and new recruits they got from the last one. CGI would be easier, but hopefully they use actual planes