Here's How Director Edgar Wright Contributed to TOP GUN: MAVERICK
It turns out that writer and director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver) made a small contribution to the development of Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, co-screenwriter and producer Christopher McQuarrie reached out to Wright for his input on what song to use for the first-act bar sequence. As you know, Wright has a talent for using the right music at the right times in the films that he makes.
Wright explained: "I didn’t have any [other] notes on Top Gun: Maverick. I first watched that in 2020. Chris McQuarrie and Tom Cruise showed it to me, and it was pretty much the film that got released, minus the Lady Gaga song. And in terms of the Foghat thing, they needed a song.
"My dream text to get was Chris McQuarrie saying, ‘Hey, we need a new song for the bar scene in Top Gun: Maverick. What can you think of that’s like …?’ And it was like, ‘Oh, give me 45 minutes!’ I think I still have that playlist on Spotify; it was ‘Maverick Bar.’”
He ended up recommending the 1975 hit “Slow Ride” by English rock band Foghat, which can be heard when Hangman (Glen Powell) and Rooster (Miles Teller) talk to each other for the first time at the bar.
So, that was Wright’s small contribution to Top Gun: Maverick!