Top Gun 2 Director Talks Recreating Original Movie's Iconic Beach Scene

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Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski discusses recreating the original movie's iconic beach volleyball scene. Tom Cruise has returned to one of his most popular roles as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the long-awaited sequel to Top Gun, the 1986 Tony Scott-directed blockbuster about a group of U.S. Navy fighter pilots in an elite flight training school. The original movie was released to mixed reviews from critics, but proved to be a massive hit with fans, pushing it to the top of the box office charts that year and making it one of the defining films of the decade.

During the original film, Mitchell and his wingman Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards) take a break from training and play volleyball against Tom "Iceman" Kazansky (Val Kilmer) and Ron "Slider" Kerner (Rick Rossovich). Although brief, the Top Gun volleyball scene became one of the most memorable moments in the film, with three of the four flyboys shirtless and oiled up in the sun. They pose and exhibit their muscular physiques in slow-motion as Kenny Loggins' aptly named song "Playing with the Boys" plays over the action.

In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Kosinski shares details of recreating the memorable beach scene in Top Gun: Maverick. Kosinski explains that, once he took the job as director, people immediately began asking what he will do to pay homage to the original Top Gun volleyball scene. In the upcoming movie, the pilot trainees take to the sand and play football in wet jeans. Check out Kosinski's full comments below:

Yes. That was one of those scenes that, when people heard I was starting to prep this movie, everyone was asking me about the beach scene. I knew that was something we couldn't avoid. The trick was how we work it into the story. I didn't want to just do the scene for the sake of doing it. Our screenwriting team came up with a really clever way of integrating that sequence into the story of our film. And then, when it came to that day, we had fun. I mean, it was shooting the beach scene for Top Gun.

It was important to Kosinski that the Top Gun 2 beach football scene was integral to the story, and not just something that happened because something similar occurred in the previous film. Coming up with scenes and then working backward to make them feel natural to a story can be a difficult task. However, the director appears confident that the film's writers completed their task successfully, and created a beach scene to rival that of the first film.

At the end of the day, Kosinski's Top Gun: Maverick falls into the category of legacy-sequel, a film that serves as a reboot of the franchise but also a sequel to the original film. This allows the introduction of new characters while treating fans to familiar faces, and many such movies are loaded with callbacks and fan service, designed to play off the audience's nostalgia. However, these moments can feel shoehorned into the story simply because fans recognize it; Kosinski's requirement that an homage to the Top Gun beach volleyball scene be integral to the story is a good sign that he took good care of the actual movie he was making. Kosinski's work seems to have paid off, as Top Gun: Maverick reviews have positioned it as the blockbuster to beat this summer.

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