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Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick's F-18 flights cost almost Rs 9 lakh an hour!
Tom Cruise and his pilot co-actors in Top Gun: Maverick managed to borrow the F/A-18 Super Hornets, courtesy of the US Navy only after meeting certain conditions. The actors couldn't touch the controls and had to pay Rs. 9 lakh per hour to ride the fighter planes. Read on to know more.
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- The cast of Top Gun: Maverick was only allowed to ride the F-18 jets
- The studio was charged almost Rs 9 lakhs per hour for a ride
- The Mission Impossible actor wanted his co-stars to experience what it feels like to be a pilot
Tom Cruise was given F/A-18 Super Hornets by the US Navy for his Top Gun film on the condition that the studio paid up to Rs 9 lakh per hour to use the powerful fighter planes, of which Cruise wouldn't be operating the controls.
The Mission Impossible actor, known for executing his stunts, requested his co-stars playing pilots in the movie to fly in one of Boeing Co.'s fighter jets to get a sense of what it's like to fly under the strain of massive gravitational forces. Cruise had previously flown in a jet for the 1986 smash hit Top Gun.
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According to Glen Roberts, the chief of the Pentagon's entertainment media office, a Pentagon law prohibits non-military persons from managing a Defense Department equipment other than small weapons in training scenarios. Cruise flew more than a dozen sorties for the new film. The actors rode behind the F-18 pilots after completing their essential training on ejecting themselves from the jet in an emergency and survival at sea.
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According to Paramount Pictures, Cruise established his own tough flight training program for the young actors to be able to survive the nausea-inducing rigors of aerial maneuvers and perform their roles with "actual Navy pilots taking them on the ride of their lives."
Roberts further mentioned that he's never seen the kind of interest generated over Top Gun: Maverick in his tenure at the Pentagon's media office.
The film is likely to be Cruise's first to gross $100 million in the United States. According to Boxoffice Pro, it might generate around $130 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales over the weekend, making it one of the most successful films in the past two years.
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