'I’m very much engaged in the idea that dinosaurs are animals that are deserving of our respect and they’re deserving of our fear, all at the same time, in the way that lions are,' he continues. With the creatures – and their DNA – escaping into the open at the end of the last film, the world is now their playground. Jurassic World: Dominion, Colin Trevorrow tells Total Film, “is around the whole world”. Jurassic World was set in a functioning park, and sequel Fallen Kingdom spanned an island, a boat, and a creepy mansion. their heads will roll back to 34 years ago, 35 years ago.' Jurassic World: Dominion There is nostalgia, obviously, because of the music – we’re using the Top Gun theme, obviously. 'So I think it’s really true to the first one. 'We try to stay true to the character of Maverick, and take you on his ride, at this point in his career and his life,' says Bruckheimer.

Oh, and one of the newbies just so happens to be Rooster (Miles Teller), the son of Maverick’s gone-but-never-forgotten BFF Goose. We’ll join him just as he’s offered a teaching post at – you guessed it – the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, aka Top Gun, where he must train up a new generation of plucky, puff-chested pilots for a kamikaze real-world mission. Plot-wise, Maverick is still living up to his call sign, his disdain for authority preventing him from rising up the ranks. They helped come up with ideas and worked with Tom.' We had some of their best pilots working with us. I get excited every time I watch these aerial sequences. 'It really puts you inside that airplane,' producer Jerry Bruckheimer tells Total Film. But our anticipation has only grown, fuelled by those trailers, leaning into the music and iconography, and offering hair-raising glimpses of Cruise pulling eight Gs as he barrels through the sky for real.

Given the three-decade wait for Tom Cruise to return as Navy pilot Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in a Top Gun sequel, its further delay due to the pandemic has been especially unfortunate. For 35 years we’ve felt the need, the need for speed.

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