Strap in, we’re breaking the IMAX camera barrier.
Top Gun: Maverick is soaring toward a billion dollars at the box office. It’s the best blockbuster we’ve seen in years, and Paramount looks like geniuses holding it for the entire pandemic and allowing it to be the breakout film of 2022, almost three years since the movie was initially shot and two years after it was due to come out. We’ve talked about the cinematography of the film and the editing already, and how it’s impacted the box office.
But one of the coolest things it seems no one is talking about is how they advanced the use of IMAX cameras. Check out this featurette.
How Practical Flight Techniques Were Used in Top Gun: Maverick
Director Joseph Kosinski and cinematographer Claudio Miranda teamed up to push the boundaries of film and filmmaking. But they needed a little help from the United States Naval Air Systems Command. NAVAIR, as they are known, stepped in with two Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jets to modify for photography, and then a decommissioned Grumman F-14 Tomcat for on-the-ground scenes.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
