The Top Gun soundtrack is one of the most popular soundtracks to date, and some say that it captured the heart of the 1980s with its music. Harold Faltermeyer, who previously worked with both Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson on the film Flashdance and Beverly Hills Cop was sent the script of Top Gun by Bruckheimer before filming even had even started. A dinner with Bruckheimer and Simpson after Faltermeyer had read the script prompted Faltermeyer to exclaim he had already finished the Top Gun anthem, which in part was true. Simpson w ...

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Top Gun - Inspirations. The primary inspiration for the film was discovered by producer Jerry Bruckheimer when he found an article in the May 1983 issue of California magazine which would form the basis of the film. The article, Top Guns, was about fighter pilots at the Miramar Naval Air Station, located near San Diego, nicknamed "Fightertown USA". Bruckheimer's reaction to the article was instantaneous: "This looks like Star Wars on earth." However, producer Don Simpson, who had worked on Flashdance and B ...

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The film was directed by J. Lee Thompson after original director Alexander Mackendrick (best-known for the small, quirky comedies he directed for Ealing Studios) was fired by Carl Foreman due to "creative differences." The Greek island of Rhodes provided locations, and Quinn was so taken with the area that he bought land there in an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay. The film was a major box office success and the top grossing film of 1961. As a result, MacLean reunited Mallory, Miller, and Andrea in Force 10 From Navarone ...

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Observing events in Europe, American tank designers realized that the M2 Light Tank was becoming obsolete and set about improving it. The upgraded design, with thicker armor, modified suspension and new gun recoil system was called "Light Tank M3". Production of the vehicle started in March 1941 and continued until October 1943. Like its direct predecessor M2A4, the M3 was armed with a 37 mm gun and 5 machine guns: coaxial with the gun, on top of the turret, in front of the hul ...

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In 1990, Scott returned the Simpson-Bruckheimer fold to helm the big-budget auto racing saga Days of Thunder. Once again directing Tom Cruise in a tale of a talented-but-reckless young man who must master his emotions as well as his machinery, the similarities to Top Gun did not go unnoticed. Unlike its predecessor, the film was a box-office disappointment when released in the summer of 1990. Scott's next film, The Last Boy Scout, faired little better, its grim, downbeat tone (with notable overtones of misogyny) a ...

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While it was not his first film, Risky Business (1983) propelled Cruise to stardom. One sequence in the film, featuring Cruise lip-syncing Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll" in his underwear, has become an iconic moment in film history. Cruise's status as an A-list actor was secured a few years later when he starred in Top Gun (1986). He received Academy Award nominations for Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Jerry Maguire (1996), both as Best Actor; and for Magnolia (1999), as Best Supporting ...

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Garner played Wyatt Earp, whom he physically resembled to judge from Earp's photographs, in two very different movies shot 21 years apart, Hour of the Gun in 1967 and Sunset in 1988. The first film was a realistic depiction of the OK Corral shootout and its aftermath, while the second was a fictionalization of Earp's much later relationship with silent movie cowboy star Tom Mix, featuring Bruce Willis as Mix in his second movie role. Although Willis was billed over Garner, the film actually gave more screen time and the most emphasis to Earp rather than Mix. Malcolm Mc ...

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1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", became the most popular U.S. album of the year. Followed immediately by other grunge bands like Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, grunge dominated the U.S. charts for the next few years. Its success effectively ended pop-oriented, 1980s hair metal groups like Def Leppard, Guns 'n' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Poison and Ratt, whose sales and critical viability were beginning to decline for about two years previously and also ended Los Angeles' st ...

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Several novels and large amounts of fan fiction have been based on the world of Rifts. A licensed Rifts video game, (Rifts Promise of Power) was released in November of 2005 for the Nokia N-Gage, as was a short-lived collectible card game. Rifts - Rifts Movie. According to a March 2004 press release [1], noted film producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean, Top Gun, The Rock) and writer David Franzoni (Gladiator) have become interested in creating a Rifts movie. According to the Palladium Web site, Franzoni is worki ...

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Top Gun - Film. Throughout the film 'enemy' fighters are identified as 'MiG-28s'. This designation was never used for a Soviet fighter aircraft in real life; the hostile jets were actually repainted Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs for the single-seat jets, and T-38 Talons for the two-seater jets. Training adversary aircraft were Douglas A-4 Skyhawks. Although not identified in the film, according to the 2004 DVD audio commentary, the enemy fighters are North Korean in origin. Goose's full, real na ...

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Tom Cruise plays Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, a cocky young United States Navy F-14 Tomcat pilot. Maverick is the son of a fighter pilot shot down during the Vietnam War and listed as missing in action, the details of which haunt Maverick to this very day. The film begins with Maverick and his RIO (Radar Intercept Officer, the back seater in the two-man F-14) "Goose" (Anthony Edwards), flying wing man to lead pilot "Cougar" and his RIO, "Merlin" (Robbins), en route to intercept an unknown inbound (a "bogey"). It turns out to be two e ...

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From the early stages during the production of the Top Gun script, it was always known that Tom Cruise was the most wanted actor to play Maverick. As Cruise did originally turn down both Bruckheimer and Simpson, yet worked with the pair to develop the material, both producers knew that Tom needed more persuading to sign on to the project. Cruise who was hot property after releasing All the Right Moves was taken for a joy ride with the "Blue Angels", and after that flight Cruise ran to the neares ...

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