Danny Ramirez is an actor who is aware of his manner round motion pictures 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 sort of flying accomplished in these two motion pictures is kind of totally different, however to my shock, Ramirez knowledgeable me that Maverick’s Christopher McQuarrie truly helped with making Courageous New World’s flight sequences look nice.
Early on in my interview with Ramirez tied to Captain America 4 changing into obtainable for Disney+ subscription holders to stream, I introduced up how he’d stated earlier this 12 months that he had Tom Cruise on his thoughts when capturing 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 place Top Gun within the out on this planet, it modifications the way in which folks understand air to air sequences. And to disclaim that I suppose is a disservice, ‘trigger clearly it did such a superb 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 perhaps bought off to a streamer. However Tom Cruise and Paramount held the course on a theatrical launch, and it resulted within the sequel making almost $1.5 billion worldwide. However even past its vital and field workplace success, as Danny Ramirez famous, Maverick modified the sport in terms of cinematic flight sequences. He needed to ensure the identical care and a focus went into what Captain America: Courageous New World needed to supply on that entrance, regardless that on this case, the vast majority 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 predominant flight sequence, Danny Ramirez arrange a gathering between director Julius Onah and McQuarrie. As he recalled:
Among the best 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 loads of that, ‘trigger Chris was additionally actually lively in clearly Top Gun Maverick. So Julius and Chris chopped it up about what Chris discovered and what we discovered on Top Gun and have the ability to relay that on this world to Julius, ‘trigger clearly it is a totally different world. Physics are nonetheless there, nevertheless it’s a bit bit totally different. Yeah, I suppose 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 a further manner 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 stay up for 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.