TOP GUN: MAVERICK Director Shares Details on a Couple of Deleted Scenes

Tom Cruise Top Gun: Maverick was a hell of a great movie filled with some epic aerial action sequences. It was previously revealed that there were over 800 hours of footage shot for the film, which is insane! I’m sure a lot of that footage was shot for those jet fighter sequences. But there are some other scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut of the film.

During a recent interview with Uproxx, director Joseph Kosinski shared some details on a couple of those detailed scenes and they offered more connections to the original movie. The first scene involved the original F-14 jet fighter that Marverick flew in the first movie:

"Maybe we have a couple of nice scenes that I would love to include, that were great scenes, that just didn't make sense in our final cut. Well, there's one you see in the trailer of Maverick. When he first gets to the Coronado, every Navy base has an airplane on a stick out front. Like a model, and he pulls up and looks up and it's his F-14 that he shot down three MiGs with in the first film. So it's him staring up at that plane. That was a nice little beat.”

He then shared details on another scene involving Cyclone, Pheonix, and Bob:

“And there was a nice scene in the infirmary with Cyclone and Phoenix and Bob. If it were in there, it would've taken a little bit of the tension away when Maverick comes in to tell Rooster they're going to be okay. But it was a really nice scene for the three of them. So maybe we'll get to include some of that on the Blu-ray."

There’s a good chance that we’ll get to see these deleted scenes and more when the movie is released on home video. There’s no doubt that thing is going to be packed full of awesome special features, and I will watch them all!