‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Came This Close To Being Grounded By Tom Cruise, Director Says

Tom Cruise didn’t feel the need for speed when director Joseph Kosinski pitched him “Top Gun: Maverick” ― and it took a desperate 30-minute meeting to convince him otherwise, the director said. Kosinski told Polygon in an interview published Sunday that he and producer Jerry Bruckheimer flew to Paris to convince Cruise to dust off the franchise while he was shooting a “Mission: Impossible” movie. Advertisement “We got about a half-hour of his time between setups. And I basically had 30 minutes to pitch this film, which I didn’t realize when we were flying over. But when I got there,… Read Full Article