The fake hypersonic plane in Top Gun: Maverick reportedly looked so real that China re-oriented spy satellites to surveil it. At least, that's what filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer told Sandboxx.

"The Navy told us that a Chinese satellite turned and headed on a different route to photograph that plane," Bruckheimer said. "They thought it was real. That's how real it looks." The Darkstar, although fictional, skews more towards a plausible and realistic design--no doubt informed and helped considerably there by Lockheed Martin's role in aiding the Darkstar's prototype. Check out the trailer below, and see if you can spot which one isn't a real plane.

Early social media reactions to Top Gun: Maverick have been overwhelmingly positive. The film's debut at CinemaCon sparked lots of tweets about how, somehow, the Top Gun sequel is everything we want from a Top Gun movie and more. Some of it could be the shine from the CinemaCon convention afterglow--especially in the midst of a hopefully waning pandemic--but pretty much universally it was praised by attendees, with particular attention also paid to praising the movie's aerial cinematography and star Tom Cruise's performance.