Is Top Gun a rare example where Hollywood studio executives actually saved a movie from certain failure?

Reports were that Tony Scott shot it as if he were making an experimental art film.

Tony’s director’s cut of Top Gun was by all accounts, unwatchable. Hours of slow-mo sunsets and jets, gorgeous shots of abs and hot pilots set to music — all amounting to no sense at all. The test screening was a monumental (sorry, I have to) — crash and burn.

In stepped the studio execs. With Bruckheimer and Simpson, they scrapped Tony’s cut and started fresh in the editing room with Jack Epps’ screenplay at the ready.

The editors Chris Lebenzon and Billy Webber reportedly used every single usable shot to piece together the Top Gun we all know and love.

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