Top Gun: Maverick director reveals mind-boggling number of cameras used on set

Exclusive: Director Joseph Kosinski on the movie’s ludicrous lenses We’ve tested our fair share of serious photographic hardware here at TechRadar, but Top Gun: Maverick’s truly ridiculous film camera setup has put even our world-weary heads in a tailspin.In an exclusive interview with TechRadar to promote the upcoming blockbuster, Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski lifted the lid on just how he and his team came to shoot more than 800 hours of footage (813, to be exact) for the movie, which is set to release in the UK on May 25 and globally May 27.“Part of that [amount of footage] was just the result of having so many cameras running,” the Spiderhead filmmaker told us. In our five-star review of Top Gun: Maverick, we said that Kosinski and Cruise successfully deliver "a string of aerial stunt sequences that truly raise the bar for edge-of-your-seat action," adding that "it's easy to feel as if you’re right up there with Maverick and the other pilots travelling at speeds nearing 1,000mph."We’ll be sharing more insight from the the cast and crew of Top Gun: Maverick in the coming days, so stay tuned to TechRadar ahead of the movie's long-awaited release in theaters later this week.