Is Top Gun Based on a True Story?

“I went down to [Miramar], and to fly I had to go through two days of water training,” Epps recalls in 2022. “When they fly in the Navy, they fly in a lot of helicopters, and helicopters crash. I had to know how to get out of a helicopter in case it crashed, which meant we had to go in this mock-up of a helicopter interior. They dunked us in the water, made us hold our breath, and then move out in an organized manner underwater. Then they did it in the dark. So those experiences really threw me into it.”

The other significant part of Epps’ research was a series of interviews with the pilots and crew members who flew the Navy’s F-14 jets back then. “I interviewed about 25 pilots and RIOs, Radar Intercept Officers, just to understand it,” he says. “Because while I had a private pilot’s license, that’s not what a military Navy jet pilot is like, and their experience is.”

Epps says that the pilots opened up and spoke candidly with him, but only after Epps changed the circumstances of the interviews.

“When I did the first interviews, I had somebody from the Navy sitting in,” he explains. “After the first interview, I said, ‘This is not going to work. I’m sorry, I can’t talk to these people with you sitting in the room.’ They agreed, so I went forward. Not that [the pilots] had anything to say that was wrong or anything, but they could open up a little more about their private lives.”

As for whether Top Gun is based specifically on one true story or incident, Epps explains how he and Cash approached the writing: “The movie is really a series of incidents that people told us. We put those together in a dramatic way. But it really is based upon the stories that these people told us.”

One thing that’s not based on anything from real life, however, are the characters in the film.

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