WATCH NEVER BEFORE SEEN FOOTAGE OF ‘GREAT BALLS OF FIRE’ PERFORMANCE FROM BLOCKBUSTER TOP GUN: MAVERICK
Paramount Pictures’ blockbuster film Top Gun: Maverick, produced by and starring Tom Cruise, continues to dominate the global box office and is currently the top-grossing domestic film of 2022. In the film, Rooster, portrayed by Miles Teller, sits at a piano singing a bit of “Great Balls of Fire” while Maverick reminisces of the time he and Goose played the same song in the original film. Now you can see never before released footage of Miles Teller’s character leading a piano singalong of “Great Balls of Fire” in a packed bar.
Miles Teller’s version of “Great Balls Of Fire” is just one of the songs featured on Music From The Motion Picture Top Gun: Maverick, which had the highest debut of a soundtrack in over a year.
With a combination of classics from the original film, new music, and score, the album reflects Top Gun’s past, present, and future all at once. It boasts instantly recognizable cuts such as the theme song “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins, and Miles Teller’s show-stopping live rendition of “Great Balls of Fire plus it features original score tracks by the movie’s composers—Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer and Academy Award winner Lady Gaga and multiple Academy® Award winner Hans Zimmer.
Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick visits Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) after more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators. Maverick is where he belongs –pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose.” Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
