{"id":725404,"date":"2026-06-09T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725404\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:24:11","slug":"guadagnino-is-not-a-top-gun-maverick-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725404\/","title":{"rendered":"Guadagnino Is Not A “Top Gun: Maverick” Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n

Celebrated Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, who once sang the praises of Joseph Kosinski\u2019s \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d has changed his tune on the film after praising it back in 2022.<\/p>\n

The \u201cCall Me By Your Name,\u201d \u201cChallengers,\u201d and \u201cSuspiria\u201d helmer recently gave an interview at Foglio\u2019s Innovation Festival, where he spoke about nostalgia in films and how it is something of a problem.<\/p>\n

Nostalgia still does very big business at the box-office, but it\u2019s not always a guarantee \u2013 this was aptly demonstrated this past weekend with the disappointing debut for \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d. That said, some old franchises continue to power through with \u2018Maverick\u2019 seen as a textbook example of a successful nostalgia play. <\/p>\n

Guadagnino started out talking about Steven Spielberg\u2019s new film \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d which he sees as the director going back to an old-fashioned alien movie. Here\u2019s the translated text (via The Playlist<\/a>) from the original Q&A video session<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Disclosure Day\u2019 is part of the economy of nostalgia, which is one of the fundamental themes of the last 20 years, right? The whole imagination is built, even politics, is built on nostalgia and therefore how to move inside ourselves what we think we\u2019ve lost and find it again.<\/p>\n

I remember when I was making \u201cChallengers,\u201d I went to see \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d in a packed theater. It was huge for thousands of people, and it was a very bad movie. But at the same time\u2026 people were screaming, throwing popcorn, they were very happy because the economy of nostalgia right seems to be the only commodity that can be dominated by all types of market, easy politics, right? It\u2019s what I think right now\u2026.it\u2019s a problem of raw material.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is being seen as an odd take, especially now as one of Guadagnino\u2019s upcoming films is a new adaptation of \u201cAmerican Psycho\u201d. His immediate next is \u201cArtificial\u201d which stars Andrew Garfield and Ike Barinholtz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures Celebrated Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, who once sang the praises of Joseph Kosinski\u2019s \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-725404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}