Top Gun: Maverick Is Tom Cruise’s Highest Grossing After Overcoming Mission: Impossible

Top Gun: Maverickthe latest project by Tom Cruise, is the actor’s highest grossing film. The feature film directed by Joseph Kosinski surpassed another franchise dear to the public.

Mission: Impossible – Fallout Effect (2018) held the record. Production totaled US$791.1 million worldwide. In less than a month in theaters, the sequel to the 1980s classic reached US$ 806.4 million, according to the deadline (via The Addiction).

Of this number, $422.2 million was raised in the United States alone, and the rest in other markets. Top Gun: Macerick premiered in Brazilian theaters on May 26, 2022.

Top Gun 2: Why are movie villains never revealed?

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In the tradition of the classic 1986 action movie, Top Gun: Maverick (2022) also does not show the identity of the main villains. But, after all, why the director Joseph Kosinski chose not to reveal the antagonists?

In an interview with the podcast The Big Picture, Kosinski explained the reason for deciding not to reveal the nationality or names of the villains: because the film is not about geopolitics, it is about the journey of Maverick as a character. Also, keeping the antagonists a secret makes the production timeless.

“It’s about friendship, it’s about sacrifice. It’s not about geopolitics. It never was. Even though the first movie was made in the heart of the ’80s, the enemy in that movie was also kind of faceless and nameless. We wanted the focus to be a character-based story about Maverick dealing with all these relationships,” said the director.