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Top Gun 3 Is Reportedly In The Works At Paramount Pictures
Following the massive critical and commercial success of Top Gun: Maverick last year, Top Gun 3 is reportedly in the works at Paramount Pictures.
Article Summary
- Paramount Pictures is charting course for 'Top Gun 3'.
- 'Top Gun: Maverick' co-writer Ehren Kruger slated to pen the script for the new sequel.
- The sequel aims to bring back stars like Tom Cruise, Glen Powell and Miles Teller, though not confirmed.
- 'Top Gun: Maverick' soared to $1.5 billion, setting a high altitude for 'Top Gun 3' to reach.
Tom Cruise is having one hell of a week, apparently. A few days ago, it was announced that Cruise had signed a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to develop franchise and original theatrical films. It should be noted that the deal was not listed as exclusive. Still, many people thought this meant Cruise wouldn't be working with Paramount Pictures anymore following the release of Mission: Impossible 8. That is not the case. According to Puck, Top Gun 3 is officially in the works. The intention is to reunite Cruise with the stars from the previous film, like Glen Powell and Miles Teller, but it appears that no one is confirmed to be cast quite yet. Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger is returning to write this script, and it sounds like director Joe Kosinski is also not entirely confirmed to return just yet, but that is the plan.
To say that Top Gun: Maverick was massive would be an understatement. It made $1.5 billion at the box office, which is not common in a post-COVID world anymore. It was frequently hailed as one of the best films of 2022 and became the movie everyone talked about when it came to preserving theatrical releases. Top Gun: Maverick was a film that people kept saying that Paramount should release on streaming during COVID because they kept delaying it repeatedly. However, they were secure in the knowledge that they had a theatrical winner, and it paid off for them. It's not surprising that a third film is on the way with how positively new and old fans embraced the film. It's also not common for "decades-later" sequels to be as good as the original, so to say that Top Gun 3 has a high bar to clear would be the understatement of a lifetime.