Twenty One Pilots singer Tyler Joseph says the band was on the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack until Tom Cruise ‘just walked in and just fired everyone’
Twenty One Pilots singer Tyler Joseph said his band was slated for the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack — until the film’s lead actor and producer Tom Cruise let them walk away from the high-profile project.
Joseph, 33, told KROQ on Friday that he and drummer Josh Dun, 33, have been working on the music for the long-awaited sequel.
“I was working with the music broker for the new Top Gun to write a new song for them,” Joseph said, “and then I think Tom Cruise just walked in and just fired everybody.”
The latest: Twenty One Pilots singer Tyler Joseph, 33, said his band was slated for the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack — until the film’s lead actor and producer Tom Cruise, 59, let them walk away from the high-profile project. Joseph was photographed in NYC last fall
An insider told Billboard the Ohio duo were never officially signed to the film’s soundtrack.
Joseph said that Twenty One Pilots was a “part” of the big changes made to the film amid multiple delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, since previews for the film were first released in July 2019.
Joseph said he saw “some scenes” of the high-profile film, which stars Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer and Jon Hamm.
“They brought me in to show me some scenes and stuff, and I actually don’t think I started writing,” the pagan artist said. “Actually, it was pretty soon after they brought me in to show me parts of the film that they were looking for, so I kind of got the gist that there was a wholesale swap going on.”
Joseph said he and drummer Josh Dun, 33, have been working on the music for the long-awaited sequel
Joseph said that Tom Cruise (pictured on Top Gun: Maverick in San Diego last week) “just walked in and just fired everybody.”
Cruise made a grand entrance at the film’s San Diego premiere in a helicopter
Lady Gaga directs the soundtrack to the summer blockbuster with the ballad Hold My Hand; and also collaborated with Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer on the film music.
Other artists and songs featured on the compilation, according to an Amazon listing, include the Kenny Loggins hit from the 1986 original, Danger Zone; I’m not worried about OneRepublic; and a rendition of Teller’s Jerry Lee Lewis film Great Balls of Fire.
Top Gun: Maverick hits theaters May 27th.