Maverick is a film obsessed with its former self
- Written by: Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury
Skydance MediaLegacy films are more than a sequel: they hand franchises down to a new generation of viewers, passing a cultural baton.
At the opening night screening I attended of Top Gun: Maverick, when the lights went down, someone loudly whispered “let’s go!” – a perfect evocation of such films’ sense of...