Quentin Tarantino (L); Tom Cruise inTop Gun: Maverick(2022).Photo: Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images; Paramount Pictures
Tom Cruisehas quenchedQuentin Tarantino’s need for speed!
ThePulp Fictiondirector, 59, praised Cruise’s recently released sequel to 1986’sTop Gunduring an interview for CinemaBlend’sReelBlendpodcast that aired this week, saying he “f—ing loved"Top Gun: Maverickand saw it in the theater.
“Normally I don’t talk about new movies that much because then I’m only forced to say good things, or else I’m slamming someone. And I don’t want to do that. But in this case, If—ing loveTop Gun: Maverick. I thought it was fantastic,” said Tarantino.
“That and[Steven] Spielberg’sWest Side Storyboth provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore,” he added.
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“I love both Tony Scott’s cinema so much, and I love Tony so much that that’s as close as we’re ever going to get to seeing one more Tony Scott movie,” Tarantino said. “[Koskinski, 48] did a great job.”
Hewent on to say thathe could see nods to Scott, who died in 2012 at age 68, “almost in every decision” throughoutMaverick, explaining, “It was consciously right there, but in this really cool way that was really respectful.”
“And I think it was in every decision [Cruise, 60] made in the film,” Tarantino said.
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A long-awaited sequel to the 1986 original,Maverickchronicles Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell’s return to the TOPGUN Naval aviation program 30 years after his graduation.
The movie has amassed more than $1.3 billion at theaters worldwide, according toBox Office Mojo, andCruise stands to make a $100 million-plus paycheck.
Top Gun: Maverickis now in theaters.
source: people.com
