Danny Ramirez is an actor who is aware of his method round films that contain his character flying. In 2022, he starred reverse Tom Cruise as Fanboy in High Gun: Maverick, and only a few months in the past on the 2025 launch schedule, he reprised Joaquin Torres, the brand new Falcon, in Captain America: Courageous New World. After all, the form of flying finished in these two films is kind of totally different, however to my shock, Ramirez knowledgeable me that Maverick’s Christopher McQuarrie truly helped with making Courageous New World’s flight sequences look nice.
Early on in my interview with Ramirez tied to Captain America 4 changing into accessible for Disney+ subscription holders to stream, I introduced up how he’d stated earlier this yr that he had Tom Cruise on his thoughts when capturing the flying scenes within the newest Marvel film. He elaborated on that mindset throughout our dialog, which began with him saying:
… Throughout these flight sequences, I felt not strain, however simply duty on ensuring that… the second you set High Gun within the out on the planet, it modifications the best way individuals understand air to air sequences. And to disclaim that I feel is a disservice, ‘trigger clearly it did such job and it set the the usual of cinema flight, of IMAX flight. It created a visible language for it.
Due to the pandemic, there was a time when it was rumored that High Gun: Maverick is perhaps bought off to a streamer. However Tom Cruise and Paramount held the course on a theatrical launch, and it resulted within the sequel making practically $1.5 billion worldwide. However even past its essential and field workplace success, as Danny Ramirez famous, Maverick modified the sport on the subject of cinematic flight sequences. He wished to ensure the identical care and a focus went into what Captain America: Courageous New World needed to supply on that entrance, though on this case, nearly all of the film’s flying got here from Joaquin and Sam Wilson utilizing their wing packs.
As for Christopher McQuarrie, he co-wrote High Gun: Maverick with Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer, and he’s serving to put High Gun 3 collectively. So when the time got here to plan Captain America: Courageous New World’s essential flight sequence, Danny Ramirez arrange a gathering between director Julius Onah and McQuarrie. As he recalled:
Top-of-the-line sequences, we referred to as it the High Gun sequence over Celestial Island, and so I linked Julius Onah and Chris McQuarrie to have conversations about plenty of that, ‘trigger Chris was additionally actually energetic in clearly High Gun Maverick. So Julius and Chris chopped it up about what Chris discovered and what we discovered on High Gun and be capable of relay that on this world to Julius, ‘trigger clearly it is a totally different world. Physics are nonetheless there, but it surely’s a bit of bit totally different. Yeah, I feel that is the Tom Cruise impact for me.
The Celestial Island sequence noticed Sam and Joaquin racing to neutralize two American pilots who’d been mind-controlled by Samuel Sterns into attacking the Japanese fleet close by. Their efforts and efficiently persuading the Japanese to face out prevented a battle from breaking out over the adamantium on the petrified Celestial, however Joaquin was critically injured within the course of, resulting in Captain America: Courageous New World’s ending hospital scene. Whereas I’m positive that flight sequence would have nonetheless appeared spectacular with out Christopher McQuarrie’s involvement, I’m nonetheless glad Danny Ramirez was in a position to loop him in as an extra method to make sure its high quality.
We’ll see Ramirez again in motion as Joaquin Torres when Avengers: Doomsday is launched on December 17, 2026, and I sit up for seeing the character displaying off his in-flight strikes inside an much more fantastical MCU setting. Christopher McQuarrie’s newest film, Mission: Inconceivable — The Closing Reckoning, is now taking part in in theaters.