Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Blues footage behind TG scene

Top Gun: Maverick's release has been delayed to December due to COVID-19, however, the marketing team behind the film keeps trickling out behind the scenes footage to keep people's interest going. The most intriguing part of the second trailer was a shot of a fictional hypersonic test jet blowing the roof off a guard shack. You can read more about that trailer and the shot in question in this article. Now, we get to see a bit more about how they captured that sequence, including using a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet to test and prepare for the shot. (Source: The Drive 04/05/20) https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32899/this-blue-angels-flyby-is-how-top-gun-2-captured-that-crazy-hypersonic-jet-takeoff-scene

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