Top Gun: Maverick Director Joseph Kosinski Breaks Down Why You Have to See It in IMAX

I know a lot of you are planning on seeing Top Gun: Maverick this weekend. And you should. The Tom Cruise led sequel is one of my favorite movies of the year, and it’s loaded with incredible visuals, great performances, and it actually makes the original film better with the way it adds to Maverick’s story.

However, while the film will be great wherever you see it, Top Gun: Maverick is one of those movies that you really want to see in an IMAX theater. That’s because director Joseph Kosinski went out of his way to make this an IMAX experience. He did this by putting six IMAX-certified cameras into the real F-18 cockpits and the footage is incredible. You’ve never seen anything like this because Cruise and the cast were really in the planes and cameras weren’t small enough to fit in an F-18 cockpit until now. Also, the film includes nearly one hour of IMAX’s Expanded Aspect Ratio, which means you see up to 26% more picture in select sequences throughout the film.

Anyway, rather than having me spouting all the reasons to see the film in IMAX, earlier today I got on a zoom call with Joseph Kosinski so he could explain it. During the interview he talked about everything he did to make Top Gun: Maverick an IMAX experience, why he only went full frame IMAX during the flying sequences, how the Sony Venice large format camera made the aerial footage possible, how he directed the actors from the ground, what it’s like mastering a movie in IMAX, and more. In addition, he talked about his favorite IMAX theater, one of his top IMAX movie going experiences, and what IMAX does to make sure every theater looks and sounds great

Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Top Gun: Maverick stars Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer as Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Jennifer Connelly as Penny Benjamin, Ed Harris, Jon Hamm, Charles Parnell, Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Bashir Salahuddin Lewis Pullman, Monica Barbaro, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, Jay Ellis, Jake Picking, Raymond Lee, and Jean Louisa Kelly. The film's screenplay is written by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, with story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks based on characters created by Jim Cash & Jack Epps, Jr.

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