Find out how director Tony Scott was released in 1985 on the set of Top Gun. One scene from the movie particularly irritated the studio.
Tony Scott could have been released from Top Gun in the middle of the movie! We are in 1985, Tom Cruise plays Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for the first time in a feature film that makes him a star. But one particular scene will put pressure on the director, Tony Scott.
The sequence in question, with a final length of less than 1m40, is almost a minute away from the film, which adds nothing to the story and simply shows the pilots playing volleyball on the makeshift beach.
Excerpt from the volleyball scene
This moment was described in paragraph script in the script, but it took a whole day to shoot, a delusional duration that Paramount Studio did not expect at all. Top Gun editor-in-chief Chris LeBenson recently announced the podcast THR :
The scene was described as a real game, there were counting points and everything and Tony filmed it with an ad. Was angry.
Billy Weber, Second Editor, goes even further: The studio was so angry that production manager Charlie McGuire even said, “I’m going to fire him.”
Tony Scott will finally keep up and finish boxing this legendary feature film of the 80s.
This very “clip” volleyball game with the muscular and sweaty bodies of Maverick, Goose and others is one of the moments that the viewers of the feature film celebrated. Tom Cruise recalled it in Top Gun: Maverick, which on the one hand is dedicated to Tony Scott and again offers a volleyball scene between the pilots against the backdrop of the sunset.
And when asked in a rebuked tone why he loses the pilots he instructs in playing volleyball during training, Maverick simply replies that it helps the team spirit. A means of reproducing the discussion of the studio’s supervisors and Tony Scott. Nice wink!
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