Top Gun 3 with Tom Cruise is in development at Paramount

Paramount feels the need, the need for another Top Gun sequel. After the soaring success of 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick took their breath away, Puck News got the scoop that the script for a third movie is currently in development at Paramount. And while Paramount itself had no official comment, a source “close to the project” confirmed to CNN that it is indeed in early development. Word is that Cruise will be reuniting with director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who’s never met a live action movie he didn’t want to produce.

Tom Cruise is gearing up to fly back for a third installment of “Top Gun.” A script for another iteration of the high-octane aviation movie franchise is in the works at Paramount, an individual close to the project tells CNN. The film is in very early stages of development, but plans are underway for the sequel which will follow 2022’s “Top Gun: Maverick” and the original “Top Gun” from 1986, the source said.

No deals are in place yet, but CNN has learned that the idea is to reunite the producers of the film – Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski – and given that the film would be a sequel to “Maverick,” Cruise’s younger co-stars, Miles Teller and Glen Powell, would conceivably also be back.

The script is not finalized, but a first draft is being developed by writer Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote “Top Gun: Maverick,” this source also said. Paramount declined to comment. Representatives for Cruise did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

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News of another “Top Gun” sequel was first reported by Puck.

Developing another sequel is not a huge surprise, given the massive success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” which became the most lucrative film of Cruise’s career, grossing nearly $1.5 billion worldwide and nabbing six Oscar nominations, including for best picture and adapted screenplay (the movie won one Academy Award, for sound).

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The news of the next “Top Gun” film comes after CNN reported earlier this week that Cruise recently signed a non-exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to develop and produce theatrical films. (Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.)

[From CNN]

Well, great balls of fire, I’m in. I’m not a huge Tom Cruise fan and I totally think sequels and reboots are overdone at this point, but I love both of the Top Gun movies and feel committed to seeing these characters through at least another movie. I’m especially in for watching a third movie if Miles Teller and Glen Powell come back. I think at this point, Cruise only does Top Gun and Mission: Impossible movies. Has he done anything else since 2017 that I’m blanking on? I guess when you find a formula that works, you stick to it, but M:I Dead Reckoning was super boring until the action sequence in the last half hour. I’m cool with this being the movie that he totally passes off to the new generation but something tells me that Cruise is going to follow the Harrison Ford model and Maverick will be with us until he’s f’ing good and ready to let him go.