![]() ![]() With smaller budgets owing to the franchise’s pivot to streaming, and without the spectacle of the big screen, there’s simply less incentive to feature truly memorable space battles. Top Gun: Maverick makes a Rogue Squadron movie or television series seem more obvious than ever, but in recent years, starfighters have increasingly taken a backseat to lightsabers, bounty hunters, and grim and gritty political drama. Top Gun: Maverick makes a Rogue Squadron movie more obvious than ever Replace Tom Cruise’s F-18 with an X-wing and it’s not hard to imagine Maverick as a Star Wars film, with a veteran Wedge Antilles as its star. ![]() ![]() It took the excitement of the original’s flight sequences and pushed them to Mach 5, with twisting dogfights resembling A New Hope’s Trench Run. Maverick was billed as a sequel to Tony Scott’s paean to fighter jets and beach volleyball, but it bore far more in common with George Lucas’ space opera than real-life fighter combat. ![]()
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