Star Wars takes the highway to the danger zone in this Top Gun mashup trailer

With over seven months to go until Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives in theaters and inevitably dashes the sky-high expectations of fans, it’s up to the film’s already much-viewed and much-dissected trailer to shoulder the burden of the world’s dreams in the interim. Some of those dreams, it turns out, involve cross-pollinating the venerable space opera franchise with Tony Scott’s indelible 1986 softcore jet porn smash, Top Gun. As illustrated by David Johns’ clever new mashup trailer, Star Wars and Top Gun have a lot of aesthetic similarities, making them a natural pairing. At their core, both are about dudes who don jumpsuits and crash helmets, fly around in souped-up and fuel-inefficient aircraft, and blow shit the hell up as triumphant music plays in the background. Their respective protagonists, Luke and Maverick, could even bond over their respective unresolved “daddy issues.” Top Gun just has homoerotic volleyball games instead of homoerotic lightsaber duels.