I Had No Idea A Top Gun: Maverick Creative Was Brought In To Make Captain America 4’s Flight Sequences Look Great: ‘It Set The Standard’
Danny Ramirez is an actor who is aware of his means round films that contain his character flying. In 2022, he starred reverse Tom Cruise as Fanboy in Top Gun: Maverick, and just some months in the past on the 2025 launch schedule, he reprised Joaquin Torres, the brand new Falcon, in Captain America: Courageous New World. After all, the form of flying executed in these two films is sort of completely different, however to my shock, Ramirez knowledgeable me that Maverick’s Christopher McQuarrie really helped with making Courageous New World’s flight sequences look nice.
Early on in my interview with Ramirez tied to Captain America 4 turning into out there for Disney+ subscription holders to stream, I introduced up how he’d mentioned earlier this yr that he had Tom Cruise on his thoughts when taking pictures the flying scenes within the newest Marvel film. He elaborated on that mindset throughout our dialog, which began with him saying:
… Throughout these flight sequences, I felt not stress, however simply duty on ensuring that… the second you set Top Gun within the out on the earth, it adjustments the way in which individuals understand air to air sequences. And to disclaim that I assume is a disservice, ‘trigger clearly it did such a great job and it set the the usual of cinema flight, of IMAX flight. It created a visible language for it.
Due to the pandemic, there was a time when it was rumored that Top Gun: Maverick is likely to be offered off to a streamer. However Tom Cruise and Paramount held the course on a theatrical launch, and it resulted within the sequel making practically $1.5 billion worldwide. However even past its essential and field workplace success, as Danny Ramirez famous, Maverick modified the sport in relation to cinematic flight sequences. He needed to ensure the identical care and a spotlight went into what Captain America: Courageous New World needed to provide on that entrance, despite the fact that on this case, nearly all of the film’s flying got here from Joaquin and Sam Wilson utilizing their wing packs.
As for Christopher McQuarrie, he co-wrote Top Gun: Maverick with Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer, and he’s serving to put Top Gun 3 collectively. So when the time got here to plan Captain America: Courageous New World’s essential flight sequence, Danny Ramirez arrange a gathering between director Julius Onah and McQuarrie. As he recalled:
Top-of-the-line sequences, we known as it the Top Gun sequence over Celestial Island, and so I related Julius Onah and Chris McQuarrie to have conversations about plenty of that, ‘trigger Chris was additionally actually lively in clearly Top Gun Maverick. So Julius and Chris chopped it up about what Chris realized and what we realized on Top Gun and be capable of relay that on this world to Julius, ‘trigger clearly it is a completely different world. Physics are nonetheless there, but it surely’s a bit bit completely different. Yeah, I assume that is the Tom Cruise impact for me.
The Celestial Island sequence noticed Sam and Joaquin racing to neutralize two American pilots who’d been mind-controlled by Samuel Sterns into attacking the Japanese fleet close by. Their efforts and efficiently persuading the Japanese to face out prevented a warfare from breaking out over the adamantium on the petrified Celestial, however Joaquin was critically injured within the course of, resulting in Captain America: Courageous New World’s ending hospital scene. Whereas I’m positive that flight sequence would have nonetheless seemed spectacular with out Christopher McQuarrie’s involvement, I’m nonetheless glad Danny Ramirez was capable of loop him in as an extra means to make sure its high quality.
We’ll see Ramirez again in motion as Joaquin Torres when Avengers: Doomsday is launched on December 17, 2026, and I look ahead to seeing the character exhibiting off his in-flight strikes inside an much more fantastical MCU setting. Christopher McQuarrie’s newest film, Mission: Not possible — The Last Reckoning, is now enjoying in theaters.
