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Nov 2023
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and Greatest Da...

Simon Brew
About this episode
It's a pair of summer movies in this episode of Film Stories, both of which were affected by the pandemic, one of which would fare a lot better than the other. The journey to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick was over a decade long, a sequel that stopped and started more than once. Tom Cruise eventually agreed to make the film though, with filming underway in 2018: y ... Show More
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