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Jerry Bruckheimer Interview – Tom Cruise Wouldn’t Make Top Gun: Maverick Without Val Kilmer
If you’ve watched a movie at any time in the past 50 years, there’s a good chance Jerry Bruckheimer was involved in making it. Flashdance, Armageddon, Beverly Hills Cop, Con Air, Black Hawk Down, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean, Days of Thunder, The Rock, and National Treasure all come from the legendary Hollywood producer, as do the TV series CSI, Without a Trace, and Cold Case. Even with all of this success, there is one movie that perhaps stands as his greatest achievement – Top Gun. Ahead of this week’s release of Top Gun: Maverick, I sat down with Bruckheimer to discuss where these cinematic spectacles fall in a landscape of long-running mega franchises and superhero fatigue.
