When followers watch High Gun: Maverick — the long-awaited sequel to 1986’s High Gun — a well-known tune will greet them. The Kenny Loggins traditional “Hazard Zone” is featured within the movie.
“I lastly met Tom Cruise on Fallon about, barely earlier than 2020 began,” Loggins recalled throughout an look on the podcast Literally! With Rob Lowe. “I finished him earlier than we went on and I mentioned, ‘So, sure or no. Is ‘Hazard Zone’ within the new film?’ He mentioned, ‘We will’t do High Gun with out ‘Hazard Zone.’”
“For the final yr I used to be not allowed to inform anybody that ‘Hazard Zone’ was within the film, as a result of [Cruise] liked it a lot he needed it to be the shock component,” Loggins continued. “In order that when it got here on individuals would go, ‘Oh my God!’”
Whether or not “Hazard Zone” could be included within the sequel has been a subject of debate for the reason that movie was introduced. Again in 2018, Loggins revealed that he was concerned about recording a brand new model of the tune for the undertaking, “perhaps as a duet, with a younger act.”
High Gun: Maverick not too long ago screened for movie business members at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and acquired rave reviews. Whereas stories confirmed that “Hazard Zone” was featured within the flick, there have been no indications that another artists are included on the observe.
The unique tune was an enormous hit for Loggins, although he was not the preliminary option to sing it. Songwriters Georgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock approached Bryan Adams, Corey Hart, REO Speedwagon and Toto, earlier than finally turning to Loggins when none of these choices panned out.
“There was positively another act or bands forward of me, and it fell out,” the rocker later recalled. “I simply occurred to be within the studio, they usually wanted a singer instantly. I dropped what I used to be doing and went in.”
“Hazard Zone” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Scorching 100 and helped the High Gun soundtrack promote greater than 9 million copies within the U.S. alone.
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