Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2

Grainge, Paul

Abstract

This chapter is about the anticipation of Top Gun: Maverick as a reboot. The focus, quite purposefully, is on the reboot before it was released or the momentum of advance marketing had begun to build. While Thomas Elsaesser has likened the arrival of a blockbuster to the turbulence of a weather front, this chapter considers the more gradual changes in atmospheric pressure that precede the Hollywood reboot; it is about the tease, the rumour, and the anticipation of the reboot as discursive project. Contributing to work on the paratextual constellations that prefigure media events, I focus on the period in the mid-2010s leading up to the first official publicity still for Top Gun: Maverick.

Citation

Grainge, P. (2020). Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2. In D. Herbert, & C. Verevis (Eds.), Film reboots (205-218). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

• Acceptance Date: Jun 8, 2020
• Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 13, 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 205-218
• Series Title: Screen serialities
• Book Title: Film reboots
• Chapter Number: 13
• ISBN: 9781474451369
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4613982
• Publisher URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-film-reboots-hb.html