History Trivia / TopGunMaverick

** The cast also worked out extensively and lifted weights on location to look good for the dog fight football sequence. Lewis Pullman passed on this because he wore a shirt for the scene and had fun teasing his castmates over all their effort as he lounged between takes.

** Rumor had it that it would focus upon drone operators.

** Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division helped design the fictional Darkstar plane, which is why it features official branding and logos on screen.

* ReleaseDateChange: The original release date of July 12th, 2019, was pushed back to June 26th, 2020 due to extensive visual effects and complicated flight scenes. Then it was pushed back once again to December 23rd, due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, then again to November 19, 2021, then finally to May 27, 2022, which was one of the dates for Cruise's similarly moved around ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne''. The delays were so extensive that the movie ultimately opened mere weeks before director Joseph Kosinski's next film, ''Film/{{Spiderhead}}''.

** Creator/MilesTeller beat out Creator/NicholasHoult and Creator/GlenPowell to play Goose's son.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The large patch on the back of Maverick's leather jacket had the Japanese and Taiwanese flags edited out at the suggestion of Tencent, which provided a large chunk of the film's financing. When Tencent pulled its funding from the film (upon realizing that it glorifies the US Armed Forces), the patch was restored to its original appearance.

** The same goes for the Latin American Spanish dub, minus the using your local air force for announcing the dub voice cast, as it features many young and veteran voice actors: Creator/ArturoMercadoJr (Maverick), Alan Bravo (Rooster), Creator/CarlosSegundo (Adm. Cain), Creator/IrwinDaayan (Hangman), Mireya Mendoza (Phoenix), Creator/JoseAntonioMacias (Goose in flashbacks), Creator/AlejandroOrozco (Payback), Creator/HectorEmmanuelGomez (Coyote), Oscar Flores (Iceman), Dan Osorio (Hondo), Creator/RaulAnaya (Cyclone), Creator/IdziDutkiewicz (Warlock), Erica Edwards (Penny Benjamin), and Creator/MildredBarrera (Carole Bradshaw [[spoiler:in post-mortem flashbacks]]).

** Just as with the original, the sequel is very US military-friendly and has benefitted from extensive support of the US Defense Department, with filming taking place on US military bases and on two ''Nimitz''-class aircraft carriers with real [=F/A-18E & F=] Super Hornet fighter/attack jets (the Fs are the two-seaters).

* ProductPlacement: As the mission to destroy the uranium depot begins, Hondo (Bashir Salah) keeps track of the 2:30 mission timer (the time needed to infiltrate and destroy the depot before fighters intercept the team) using an IWC stopwatch, seen in close detail at several points during the mission.

* ChannelHop: Defied. While Creator/{{Paramount}} has handed off a number of its titles to streaming services amidst the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, they [[https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/top-gun-maverick-paramount-rejected-streamers-1234611229/ refused to sell]] ''Top Gun: Maverick'' to several streamers that approached them about it (allegedly Creator/AppleTVPlus and Creator/{{Netflix}}, who allegedly proposed the same with ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' but balked at that one's humongous price tag). Tom Cruise was also ''very'' adamant that the film be "theatrical only" before the usual home video and streaming releases. The decision paid off, as the film would go on to break the box office record for [[https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/weekend-box-office-results-top-gun-maverick-soars-to-memorial-day-weekend-record/ highest grossing Memorial Day weekend debut]], a record holder for a Memorial Day-release second weekend, and became the second post-pandemic film after ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

* Cyclone is mentioned to have graduated top of his class at TOPGUN in 1988. Creator/JonHamm would have been 17 years old at the time, meaning Cyclone would have to be a few years older.

* Cyclone is mentioned to have graduated top of his class at TOPGUN in 1988. Creator/JohnHamm would have been 17 years old at the time, meaning Cyclone would have to be a few years older.

* BannedInChina: With the restoration of the Taiwanese and Japanese flag emblems on Maverick's jacket and Tencent withdrawing their funding, the chances of the film being released in mainland China were always going to be slim to none.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The large patch on the back of Maverick's leather jacket had the Japanese and Taiwanese flags edited out at the suggestion of Tencent, which provided a large chunk of the film's financing. When Tencent pulled its funding from the film, the patch was restored to its original appearance.

* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/TomCruise describes this film as a "love letter" to aviation. So despite the difficulty and expense, many of the aerial shots and stunts were performed with real planes rather than done through CGI. A particularly neat trick is that they are using a two-seat aircraft with the actor in the rear seat so that they can be pretending to fly while the aircraft is truly in flight.