Director Joseph Kosinski says:
"The original version of the script we actually followed Maverick in his freefall back to Earth, which would have I guess debunked that theory," Kosinski told Happy Sad Confused's Josh Horowitz. "It was a pretty spectacular sequence imagining what it's like to reenter from space in your spacesuit."
"I love it. Film is meant to be interpreted. I love that there's multiple ways to read it. It's, you know, hopefully it's a piece of art meant to be interpreted, and I love people reading those things into it. It's like The Big Lebowski Theory that Johnny's not really there so, no, I welcome that," he said."
4 Comments
Igloojoe@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
Its always funny when people think there is more to a story, for a story that had low creativity in the first place.
Top Gun: Maverick's story is all about doing a mission that is the same exact thing as star wars episode 4 death star attack.
pau_hana@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
I don't remember a Johnny character in The Big Lebowski. Maybe somebody in the Fediverse knows who he is referring to...was that the name of Sam Elliot's cowboy character?
user1234@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 2y
I think they meant Donny.
Deebster@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah, definitely, and I can share a similar article: The Coen Brothers Finally Address That One 'Big Lebowski' Theory