{"id":481,"date":"2018-09-26T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999920181"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T22:43:31","slug":"tom-cruise-filming-top-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/filming\/tom-cruise-filming-top-gun","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise and crews filming in the waters off Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC\u2014Tom Cruise and film crews have been patrolling the ocean way off Long Beach, beyond the breakwater, in the past few days shooting action scenes from a barge for the sequel to Cruise’s 1986 mega-hit film “Top Gun.”<\/p>\n

“Top Gun: Maverick” will feature Cruise and his “Top Gun” co-star Val Kilmer, along with “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm, Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. Also returning to the new film will be singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins, reprising his hit single “Danger Zone.”<\/p>\n

Cruise will once again play the part of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Thirty-six years between movie flights is a long hiatus for a pilot, and the movie will center in large part on the increased role of drones in warfare. But, of course, when things get dangerous we’ll need a real pilot to get things done; we’re assuming that doesn’t need a spoiler alert. Production notes show that Cruise\/Mitchell will be piloting an F\/A-18 Super Hornet in the “Top Gun: Maverick,” rather than the original film’s F-14 Tomcat.<\/p>\n

The film will be directed by CGI guru Joseph Kosinski and is scheduled for a June 26, 2020 release.<\/p>\n

In other film news, Long Beach’s venerable Joe Jost’s once again put on its film face for a role in the Matt Damon\/Christian Bale film “Ford vs. Ferrari”<\/a> two weeks ago, shortly after shooting scenes at Alamitos Bay.<\/p>\n

The popular tavern has been featured in several films, including “The Bodyguard,” “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “Madison” and “License to Wed.”<\/p>\n

“Ford vs. Ferrari” (it may be renamed later) is scheduled for a June 28, 2019 release.<\/p>\n

Updated to correct Matt Damon stars in “Ford vs. Ferrari,” not Brad Pitt.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Tom Cruise will reprise his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in “Top Gun: Maverick,” set for release in summer 2020. Scenes are being filmed now outside the Long Beach breakwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":66005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[216],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filming","tag-filming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}