![]() ![]() 'Top Gun: Maverick' nigh-impossible third act mission was conceived by the actual U.S. The film did well enough, but the real victory, it turns out, was in Kosinski convincing Cruise to trust in whatever vision he laid out. So, the duo made Oblivion, an intriguing high-concept genre film in which Cruise plays a blue-collar drone repairman who discovers a massive conspiracy lurking in the ruins of a post-war Earth. "I think he's a guy who's a world-creator," Cruise said during a Q&A promoting Oblivion back in 2013. RELATED: Oblivion is a sci-fi high-concept hidden gem ![]() It was enough to get him to sign on when the feature film version reared its head. Cruise saw some early post-production sequences from that film, coupled with early previews of what was then a graphic novel laying out the concepts of Oblivion. In Joseph Kosinski's case, that collaboration led to his work on one of the biggest movies of 2022, and it all began a decade earlier with his sci-fi film Oblivion (now streaming on Peacock).Īctually, to hear Cruise tell it, the journey to working with Kosinski on Top Gun: Maverick was really launched with Tron: Legacy, Kosinski's debut feature film. Once he buys into a director's vision, that director has a chance to build a longer collaboration. Tom Cruise has certain filmmakers he just trusts, as you can tell by his long associations with people like Christopher McQuarrie and Cameron Crowe. ![]()
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