“If we can find a story that we all want to do, we all want to make a film that is in the same kind of tone as the other one and shoot it in the same way as we shot Top Gun. “I hope we can figure this out to go do it again,” says Tom Cruise. Already, there is much talk on which fighter aircraftMaverick will be flying. Now that we’ve had a chance to visit some of the Top Gun film locations, I can’t wait for more good news on the making of Top Gun 2. At the time of the filming, the restaurant was right on the runway of Lindbergh Field. It’s where Charlie walked in on Maverick sitting at a bar, heartbroken from losing his best friend on a recent flight mission.
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It has been used as movie location for many other movies and TV productions, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Star Trek IV, The Final Countdown, and Flight of the Intruder.Īnother film location used in Top Gun was The Windsock Bar & Grill. The USS Ranger is a recurring star in Hollywood. The location of the house was so idylic that Kelly McGillis (who played Charlie) decided to stay at this bungalow during the making of Top Gun. In the film, the golden sunset sky makes the most romantic backdrop to Charlie’s seaside cottage. If you’ve seen the movie, you’d no doubt remember the scene where Maverick rode up the hill in his motorcycle and parked in front of Charlie’s house.
It was the location I most looked forward to seeing and also one that was the hardest to take in. Out of all the Top Gun film locations I had a chance to visit last month, the “Top Gun house” or “Charlie’s house” visit was the most poignant for me. Charlie’s House - The Cottage on 102 Pacific Street, Oceanside, California But then again, I didn’t mind waiting since it gave me more time to gawk at the Top Gun memorabilia and photos lining the restaurant’s walls and ceilings.Ħ00 W Harbor Drive (between Kettner Blvd & G St)Ģ. My lunch at the Kansas City Barbeque (pulled-pork sandwich, onion rings, and a hefty glass of root beer served on paper plates and cups) was average. As you can see from these photos (taken in March 2012), that is definitely not the case. There are rumors that all the movie memorabilia was destroyed in the fire.
Luckily no one was injured and they reopened the restaurant a few months later in November 2008. The fire originated in the kitchen and eventually spread to most of the restaurant’s interiors. One of the ladies even brought over an album containing photos of the badly-damanged restaurant taken after the fire of June 26, 2008. The servers at the Kansas City Barbeque seem friendly and are more than happy to talk about the restaurant’s close ties to the movie. This tiny, casual sports bar was where Maverick (Tom Cruise) and Goose (Anthony Edwards) play “Great Balls of Fire” at the piano, and where Carol (Meg Ryan) says the famous line, “Goose, you big stuuuuuud! Take me to bed now or lose me forever!” Two memorable scenes in Top Gun were filmed at the Kansas City Barbeque. Not only is sunny San Diego one of the “top Budget Travel destinations” this year, it also houses the majority of Top Gun’s film locations. News of Top Gun 2 - a potential sequel to one of my all-time favorite films - inspired me to make a special stop in San Diego last month to visit a few of the iconic film locations of Top Gun. On the tail of his mega-successful movie Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (the fourth in the MI series), Tom Cruise shared in an interview with MTV News’ Josh Horowitz his plan to revive Maverick, a character he played in Top Gun, an iconic, much-loved film he made with director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer in 1986.
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