{"id":1494603,"date":"2022-05-27T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494603"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:15:56","slug":"top-gun-maverick-studio-paid-u-s-navy-more-than-11000-per-hour-to-use-fighter-jets-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-gun-maverick-studio-paid-u-s-navy-more-than-11000-per-hour-to-use-fighter-jets-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Top Gun: Maverick\u2019: Studio Paid U.S Navy More Than $11,000 Per Hour To Use Fighter Jets: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-gun-maverick-studio-paid-u-s-navy-more-than-11000-per-hour-to-use-fighter-jets-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d used authentic U.S. Navy jets while filming, but the planes didn\u2019t come cheap. <\/p>\n<p>Fortune <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/05\/26\/top-gun-maverick-studio-paid-navy-11000-hour-fighter-jet-rides-tom-cruise-not-allowed-to-touch-controls\/\">reported<\/a> that the studio shelled out more than $11,000 per hour for the privilege, and lead actor Tom Cruise wasn\u2019t even allowed to touch the controls.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the 1986 cult classic \u201cTop Gun\u201d are thrilled to see Cruise returning to one of his most iconic projects. The 2022 version, \u201cMaverick,\u201d promises the same same action and thrills as the original, including heart-pounding fighter jet scenes. To make the scenes look real, the Navy let the studio use F\/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets for an hourly fee of $11,364.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old actor has his pilot\u2019s license and had actually flown in the original \u201cTop Gun\u201d movie. He was also able to fly certain aircraft for the new film, just not the Super Hornets. Per Fortune, Pentagon regulations won\u2019t allow non-military personnel from controlling a Defense Department asset other than small arms in training scenarios, Pentagon entertainment media spokesperson Glen Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts also said the real Top Gun pilots are nothing like the characters from the movie. He said these cocky, rebellious types of recruits \u201cwould never exist in naval aviation.\u201d Fortune described real Top Gun school candidates as \u201cstudious air nerds who toil away for hours in the classroom and participate in intense training flights at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further, Roberts noted how the military had the option to request script edits, though he\u2019s not aware of any alteration requests for \u201cTop Gun.\u201d The spokesperson said the movie \u201cdoes not have to be a love letter to the military\u201d but it does \u201cneed to uphold the integrity of the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts explained that the Super Hornet, a jet known as the \u201cRhino,\u201d takes center stage in the movie over the more advanced F-35C. He also mentioned how the F-35 is a single-seat plane, which meant actors could not tag along in them.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d was filmed in 2018 but has had its release delayed due in large part to the coronavirus pandemic. Val Kilmer, one of the stars of the original film, returned to \u201cMaverick\u201d with the aid of special technology that helped him speak even after losing his voice from a tracheotomy in 2014 following a throat cancer diagnosis, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/val-kilmer-reprises-role-in-top-gun-even-though-he-can-no-longer-speak\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the entire team at Sonantic who masterfully restored my voice in a way I\u2019ve never imagined possible,\u201d Kilmer said.<\/p>\n<p>The movie \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d was released this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d used authentic U.S. Navy jets while filming, but the planes didn\u2019t come cheap. Fortune reported that the studio shelled out more than $11,000 per hour for the privilege, and lead actor Tom Cruise wasn\u2019t even allowed to touch the controls. Fans of the 1986 cult classic \u201cTop Gun\u201d are thrilled to see &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1494670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}