Top Gun: Maverick with Joseph Kosinski and Jason Reitman (Ep. 360)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Director Joseph Kosinski discusses his new film, Top Gun: Maverick, with fellow director Jason Reitman in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, they speak about how Top Gun came into his life (the first and second time), convincing Tom Cruise to hop back into the cockpit, and the complex process of shooting the actors while flying inside the jets. The sequel film takes us back down the highway to the danger zone as pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who has spent more than thirty years dodging a promotion that would ground him, is called up on to use his skills to train a detachment of graduates for a perilous special assignment. Please note: spoilers are included. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2022/July2022/TopGunMaverick_QnA_0622.aspx

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0:00.0	For me, I was kind of approaching it more as like the Top Gun universe, right?
0:04.2	Rather than trying to kind of mimic the shots, it was more like this world where it's always sunset.
0:13.5	It's San Diego and it's always like 6.30.
0:20.4	Music Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild of America.
0:36.7	In today's episode, a veteran naval
0:38.9	aviator confronts his past in director Joseph Kaczynski's action drama, Top Gun Maverick.
0:45.3	The sequel film takes us back down the highway to the danger zone as pilot Pete Maverick Mitchell,
0:51.1	who has spent more than 30 years dodging a promotion that would ground him,
0:55.1	is called upon to use his skills to train a detachment of graduates for a perilous special
0:59.9	assignment. In addition to Top Gun Maverick, Mr. Kaczynski's directorial credits include the feature
1:06.6	films Only the Brave, Oblivion, and Tron Legacy.
1:17.9	Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Mr. Kaczynski shares insight into the making of Top Gun Maverick with fellow director Jason Reitman.
1:23.7	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:38.6	Thank you. Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation. I have moderated a few of these.
1:41.0	I've never seen even close to this size of audience in here. Basel tov. This was,
1:46.1	this in itself is a huge success. Thank you. Wow. And they stayed. And they have masks on.
1:57.6	You must have made a hell of a movie, man. All right. So I, uh, I saw Top Gun, uh, for the first time
2:04.6	two weeks ago. I went with my daughter and, uh, my daughter who was a cinephile and love the
2:10.5	movie. Movie ends. First thing she said, where was the high five? Do you guys know what I'm talking
2:15.2	about? All right. Should we do that? There is, there is a high five. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? All right. Should we do the...
2:18.2	There is a high five. No. Wait. This? There is a high five. Did I miss it? I think in the
2:24.6	beach sequence. Did I... I think there is a double high five. Would someone else like to moderate
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