Top Gun 3 is officially getting ready for takeoff.
“Top Gun 3 officially in development with a script underway, reuniting Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer,” Paramount film co-head Josh Greenstein said Thursday at CinemaCon. There was no mention of a director.
The follow-up to 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick has been in the works for several years now, with Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger hired to write a script two years ago.
Maverick was directed by Joe Kosinski and also starred Teller and Glen Powell. The sequel — which came decades after Tony Scott’s 1986 original — was a massive hit at the box office in 2022, earning $1.5 billion globally and sparking Steven Spielberg to credit Cruise with saving the theatrical business after the pandemic.
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