‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director Reunites With Miles Teller in Netflix’s Sci-Fi ‘Spiderhead’ Trailer

Top Gun: Maverick star Miles Teller has spoken about performing stunts while shooting the film, saying that he thought he was “going to die” during one particular moment.Teller, who plays Lieutenant Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw in the new film, was one of a number of actors to undergo a five-month training course delivered by co-star Tom Cruise to prepare them for the G-forces they would experience while filming scenes in planes.Of one scene, shot in an F-18 Hornet jet, Teller told LADBible: “I think when there’s that much adrenaline and a healthy bit of fear, I was able to hold [vomit] down. I guess that’s a secret skill I have.”“If anything I think it made me really appreciate how nice it is not to have to, you know, go 500 knots an hour all the time,” he said of his new appreciation for commercial flights.

Vogue Italy in 2015.And in the decade or so that Teller has been a movie star, people have generally agreed.“He’s a surprisingly ordinary-­looking baby-faced guy who charmed his way out of the manatee-infested Confederate backwater of Citrus County, Florida” a Vulture profile reported in 2014. The Guardian him as “sleepy” looking. To Roger Ebert.com he is “not conventionally glamorous.”Teller’s appearance has been dissected—by the media and by himself—with a ruthlessness that is usually reserved for famous women.

Zack Sharf “Top Gun: Maverick” reunites filmmaker Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise after their work together on “Oblivion,” but that’s not the director’s only reunion in the film. Kosinski also re-teamed with Miles Teller, who earned acclaim for the director’s under-seen “Only the Brave” and has a role in his upcoming Netflix movie “Spiderhead.” Teller stars in the “Top Gun” sequel Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, son of Maverick’s late friend Nick “Goose” Bradshaw.  The “Whiplash” star was at the top of Kosinski’s mind when he was mapping out the story for “Maverick.”“I was actually in post on ‘Only the Brave,’ this was May 2017, so Miles Teller was on my mind,” Kosinski recently told Vulture. “The relationship in that movie is a very paternal one with Josh Brolin’s character.

Cruise is known for doing most of his own stunts. For this film he does them all zipping through the clouds and pulling up to eight Gs — a measure of gravitational force experienced through acceleration — which is comparable to 600 pounds pressing against your body. “So just to put it in perspective, it’s a level of power that most people never get to experience,” LaRosa said.The “Top Gun” star owns his own P-51 Mustang (a World War II fighter jet) which LaRosa said the actor flies “like it’s an extension of himself.” Cruise came onto the set with a love for and understanding of aviation, LaRosa said, and really wanted to inspire that passion in his new co-stars, including Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro and Glen Powell.

Top Gun: Maverick (★★★☆☆).The folks in the high-flying sequel might as well be throwing their barbs at Maverick star Tom Cruise, who proved himself a box office draw 36 years ago with the phenomenal success of Top Gun, the film that cemented his brash onscreen persona.The courageous, grinning, gunning Little Engine that will always out-hustle his competition no longer radiates that same insatiable hunger. But Cruise — and Maverick — still move like men with something left to prove.Introduced living in an old Navy air hangar somewhere in the Mojave, Pete Mitchell is still a maverick after all these years, still forgoing a helmet while speeding around on his motorcycle, still ranked captain despite decades in service, and still risking his life for Navy and country as a test pilot for a Mach 9 program.

Greg 'Tarzan' Davis quit his job as an elementary school teacher in Louisiana to pursue his dream of acting. Five years on, he's about to hit the big screen alongside the biggest movie star in the world, Tom Cruise, in Top Gun: Maverick - and next year's Mission:Impossible 7.Exclusive: Top Gun: Maverick star shares details of meeting 'engaging' Prince William and Kate MiddletonIt was a risk that paid off, and Tarzan says that he and Tom are now "brothers for life" after first meeting when he was cast in the sequel to the hit 1986 film Top Gun.

Top Gun is launching some branded clothing in time for the sequel's release. With Top Gun: Maverick now taking flight, the iconic fashions worn by Tom Cruise have inspired some tees that will spruce up any wardrobe. Unisex options and customisable sizes are available on Lost Universe for the Top Gun logo Navy T-shirt, which is on sale for £15 or a two-for £25 limited time offer if you need a few new fashion options.

The rise of streamer content has created anxiety for talent and their reps, because of models that require ownership of a project in perpetuity. Because product starts on a streaming site and then never leaves, there is no chance of backend windfalls. Just look at the creators and cast of Squid Game to see what that can mean: a billion-dollar property for Netflix, embarrassingly tiny paydays for the artists who made it, and little hope of making up the shortfall in subsequent seasons.

Val Kilmer’s daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, is reflecting on her experience witnessing her father lay down scenes on the set of "Top Gun: Maverick." The 30-year-old actress recalled being present when Kilmer, 62, made his anticipated cameo in the upcoming Tom Cruise flick as Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, the arch-nemesis of Cruise’s Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. According to the New York Post, both stars appear together in a scene, reuniting the pair in which Iceman and Maverick Mitchell come face-to-face and each deliver heartwarming performances that marked a culmination for the film franchise.

NEW YORK -- In 1983, producer Jerry Bruckheimer was flipping through the May issue of California magazine when he was struck by a story. “Top Guns” read the headline, with a large photograph from inside the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet. The story opened: “At Mach 2 and 40,000 feet over California, it’s always high noon.”“I saw that cover and I said, ‘We gotta do this.

Tom Cruise set out to make the follow-up film to his beloved 1986 hit,  he knew the success of the story would hinge on not only the storyline and motivations of his character, Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, but in the squadron of young, up-and-coming Navy pilots Maverick is tasked with leading through their near-impossible mission.«We had to find not only the actors that are correct for the roles, or just a great cast, which we have in there — each one of them are extraordinary, charismatic, each one very distinct,» Cruise said in an exclusive ET featurette from the set of the film. «We also, prior to [filming], I had to go look.

Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly pose for photos together at the Top Gun: Maverick photo call at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday (May 18) in Cannes, France.

Given how busy an actors schedule can get, it’s not that rare if they have multiple projects premiering over a short period of time but directors almost never have multiple projects bowing within a month of each other. Joseph Kosinski now falls under that category has he not only has the highly-anticipated Top Gun: Maverick opening worldwide on Memorial Day weekend, he also has his Netflix thriller Spiderhead premiering on the platform on June 18.

Chris Hemsworth usually plays the good guy onscreen, but this doesn’t appear to be the case in his latest movie “Spiderhead”.

“Top Gun: Maverick” (which also stars Teller), while Hemsworth will be pulling double duty this summer as his Marvel sequel “Thor: Love and Thunder” opens in theaters on July 8.“Spiderhead” is produced by Eric Newman, Chris Hemsworth, Rhett Rees, Paul Wernick, Agnes Chu, Geneva Wasserman, Tommy Harper and Jeremy Steckler.Watch the “Spiderhead” trailer in the video above.

In a world continuing to be ravaged by a pandemic, who doesn’t want a little more dystopian escapism? Look no further than Netflix’s upcoming film “Spiderhead.” The upcoming film finds a way to marry post-apocalyptic tension with romance. The movie is based on the George Saunders short story that originally ran in the New Yorker called “Escape from Spiderhead.” It was later collected in his bestselling anthology, Tenth Of October.

Tom Cruise as Pete «Maverick» Mitchell and features a special return from Val Kilmer as now-Admiral Tom «Iceman» Kazansky -- doesn't feature any appearances from the female stars of the 1986 original: Kelly McGillis and Meg Ryan.Ryan's character, Carole, the wife of Maverick's late wingman and best friend Nick «Goose» Bradshaw (played by Anthony Edwards) and mother to Miles Teller's Bradley «Rooster» Bradshaw, is referenced in the sequel and seen in flashback scenes. However, there isn't even a mention of McGillis' Charlie Blackwood, a Top Gun instructor and Maverick's love interested in the original.«Those weren't stories that we were throwing around,» Maverick director Joseph Kosinski told Insider of the actresses' absences.

Zack Sharf When “Top Gun: Maverick” finally opens in theaters later this month, fans of the 1986 classic will get to witness the long-awaited returns of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) and Tom “Iceman” Kazansky (Val Kilmer). But fans won’t see Charlotte “Charlie” Blackwood, the Top Gun instructor played by Kelly McGillis.

Singer Tyler Joseph of 21 Pilots revealed the band was supposed to write music for the soundtrack of "Top Gun: Maverick." Joseph claimed the project came to a halt when Tom Cruise "fired everyone." "You know, I was working with the – I don't know if I'm even supposed to say this, whatever – I was working with the music placement person for the new ‘Top Gun’ on writing a new song for them," Joseph told radio station KROQ.  "And then I believe Tom Cruise came in and just fired everyone." 21 Pilots singer Tyler Joseph recently revealed he was supposed to write music for "Top Gun: Maverick" but was "fired" by Tom Cruise. Joseph noted there were a few "overhauls" throughout filming saying, "The trailer has been out for like three years, so there's been a few overhauls, and I was a part of that.They moved on." "Top Gun: Maverick" will premiere on May 24 after delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.