Tom Cruise didnt feel the need for speed when director Joseph Kosinski pitched him Top Gun: Maverick and it took a desperate 30-minute meeting to convince him otherwise, the director said.

Kosinski told Polygon in an interview published Sunday that he and producer Jerry Bruckheimer flew to Paris to convince Cruise to dust off the franchise while he was shooting a Mission: Impossible movie.

We got about a half-hour of his time between setups. And I basically had 30 minutes to pitch this film, which I didnt realize when we were flying over. But when I got there, I found that Tom really didnt want to make another Top Gun.