You will not see Maverick or Rooster in Nationwide Geographic’s latest unscripted docuseries, “Prime Gun: The Subsequent Technology,” however you will note actual Navy aviation trainees making an attempt to earn their wings in one of the vital demanding flight coaching and choice packages on the earth.
These would-be naval aviators will not be competing in opposition to one another, however they are going to be competing to fly the F-35C Lightning II, the world’s most superior fighter plane.
The brand new sequence comes within the wake of 2022’s “Prime Gun: Maverick” grossing greater than $1.5 billion worldwide. In a press launch, Nationwide Geographic says the manufacturing will get “unprecedented entry” to the Navy’s Superior Flight Coaching Program and its elite cadre of scholars, following them throughout each coaching and their off-base dwelling lives.
“The intimate entry now we have gained to the characters and the emotional character-led story arcs that run by the sequence will paint a vivid, compelling narrative across the younger women and men embarking on this extremely annoying course of,” Tanya Shaw, the managing director of Zinc Tv, which is co-producing the sequence, mentioned in an announcement. “That narrative will elevate the sequence past the noise and spectacle of fighter jets to inform the tense, nuanced and poignant human tales behind the public-facing bravado. It is a distinctive mission and we’re thrilled to be bringing it to viewers.”
However simply because the character narratives are elevated past the spectacle of fighter jets, that does not imply there will not truly be a spectacle of fighter jets. That is nonetheless Nationwide Geographic, in any case, and it is nonetheless a U.S. Navy-led “Prime Gun” manufacturing, so we are able to count on to take pleasure in loads of what the corporate calls “epic aerial sequences.”
As with “Maverick,” the most recent high-speed take a look at naval aviation could not come at a greater time for the service. The Navy missed all of its 2023 recruiting objectives, together with officer and reserve sailors, by greater than 7,400 and subsequently raised its 2024 objectives to make up for the loss. With this in thoughts, it is smart to return to the nicely that delivered a noticeable increase to Navy recruiting efforts after the unique “Prime Gun” movie was launched again in 1986.
“With so many tens of millions of followers of the movie around the globe, I used to be instantly drawn to this sequence,” Tom McDonald, government vice chairman of worldwide factual and unscripted content material at Nat Geo, mentioned of the “Prime Gun” film franchise in a press launch. “These elite jet pilots are usually not solely extraordinarily completed and spectacular, however all have very completely different tales to inform.”
“Prime Gun: the Subsequent Technology” was solely lately greenlit as a sequence, which suggests it is so new that the executives producing the present have not but realized how a lot naval aviators hate being referred to as “jet pilots.” Its premiere date will probably be introduced sooner or later.
— Blake Stilwell could be reached at blake.stilwell@navy.com. He will also be discovered on Fb, X or on LinkedIn.
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