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Top Gun: Maverick captivated moviegoers in2022.The highly anticipated sequel was released36 years after the first film became ablockbuster in1986.Top Gun: Maverick followed Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trained anew set of Top Gun pilots, including the son of his late best friend, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw.
The sequel went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies of2022 with over$1 .4 billion at the box office.Top Gun: Maverick also scored anumber of Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture.Now, everyone’s been craving Top Gun3 .
Hollywood Life is breaking down what we know about Top Gun3 .
Will There Be A ‘Top Gun3?’
Paramount is currently working on Top Gun3 , as announced at CinemaCon inApril2026.
The studio hired Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger to write the script for Top Gun3 .Along with Joe Kosinski coming back as the director, the plan is for Tom Cruise to return, as well as Miles Teller and Glen Powell .The film development is still in the very early stages, so don’t expect to see Top Gun3 on the big screen any time soon.
Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t say no to Top Gun3 , but it all hinges on Tom.“He’s in the middle of shooting Mission: Impossible8 , and that’s his focus.Once he finishes, we can have aconversation.But then he goes up in space [for an untitled Universal movie] and something else.So I have no idea,” Jerry told The Hollywood Reporter.
Director Joseph Kosinski also hinted that Top Gun3 isn’t out of the question.“Is there another story that is compelling enough that we need to go back?” Joseph told Deadline. “It seems to me at the end of this film that Maverick has some gas left in the tank.He’s not settling down.”
How Did ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ End?
Maverick is assigned to train agroup of elite Top Gun graduates to destroy an unsanctioned uranium enrichment plant in an underground bunker.This puts him face-to-face with Lt.Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of his late best friend.Rooster and Maverick are estranged after Maverick pulled his Naval Academy papers, setting Rooster back4 years.
Maverick ends up leading the strike package in themission, with Rooster, Payback, Fanboy, Phoenix, and Bob following.They are able to destroy the plant, but they are caught in enemy fire.Maverick decides to sacrifice his F/A-18E to save Rooster.Everyone is called back to the carrier after it appears Maverick is dead, but Rooster stays behind to try and find Maverick.Rooster winds up saving Maverick, but his plane is shot down.
Maverick and Rooster devise aplanto steal an old F-14 from the air base they destroyed.They run into Su-57s as they try to make it back to the carrier.They destroy two Su-57s before running out of ammunition.Just when it looks like the third Su-57 is going to take them down for good,Hangman arrives to save the day.The mission helps Maverick and Rooster mend their relationship.The film ends with Rooster helping Maverick with his P-51 Mustang.Maverick and his girl,Penny, fly off into the sunset in the plane.
What Has Tom Cruise Said About ‘Top Gun3?’
Tom hasn’t directly addressed another trip to thesky after Top Gun:Maverick. He has been pretty busy filming back-to-back Mission: Impossible movies.He recently signed anew deal with Warner Bros.
Variety asked Jerry in January2023 if he had spoken to Tom at all about Top Gun3 since interest is at an all-time high.“Not yet.He’s in themiddle of shooting Mission: Impossible.He’s got al lot of very difficult hard stunts he’s doing, so it’s not the time totake his attention away from what is important to him right now,” Jerry said.
While Jerry hasn’t had aconversation with Tom yet about Top Gun3, co-starMiles Teller has.Miles is down for athird movie and has spoken to Tom about it.“That would be great,but that’s all up to TC,” Miles toldET.“It’s all up to Tom.I’ve been having some conversations with him about it.We’ll see.”
Cast Reaction To ‘Top Gun3’
Back in August2023,Greg “Tarzan” Davis, a.k.a.Coyote, spoke exclusively withHollywoodLife aboutTop Gun3. He was understandably cryptic about any official plans.
Glen Powell ,a.k.a.Hangman pointed out that aTop Gun3 would all depend on thestory.“I think Tom,basicallly his sort of motto at the beginning of this thing is if you can’t beatthe earlier movies there’s no reason in doing it at all,” Glen toldIndieWire.“There’s no reason in just adding another movie tothe filmography ofthe world if it doesn’t contribute or beatthe original.”
He continued,”So,is there goingto be aTopGun3?If we can figure out more crazy things todo with airplanes or astory that it is compelling and emotional and adventurous and romantic and all those things like,I am sure Tom would be down.Butthat’s above my paygrade.Maybe you can pitch itto him when you talkto him!”
In December2023,Glen was asked aboutTopGun3 again.“I talkto Tom allthe time,but we don’t talkaboutTopGun2.” he toldExtra.“Heand Jerry[Bruckheimer] if theywant tomake TopGun— or technically— or technically— he has mynumber.”
Glen Powell as Hangman.(Everett Collection/Paramount Pictures)
Lewis Pullman ,a.k.a.Bob,would love todo aTopGun3 ,but he doesn’t wantto be disappointed ifit doesn’t happen.“It’s adangerous path togodown because then I’ll get my hopes up,you know?And I know how rareit is like thelikelihoodof this movie even happening,it’s so slim,” Lewis saidin a ComicBook.com interview.“I mean,Tom kept saying thismovieis like hitting abulletwith abullet like theamountof precisionand accuracythat we haveto have tomakeit asuccess,it’s really like we better buckle downand really put ourall intoit.
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