Tom Cruise will be returning for Top Gun 3 still, but development continues, a year after the new sequel was first confirmed.
We’re coming up to the third birthday of Top Gun: Maverick, a blockbuster that’s unlikely to ever be dislodged as the most successful of Tom Cruise’s career. In those three years since, director Joseph Kosinski has directed F1, which is finally set to arrive this summer. As for Cruise, he’s been working with writer and director Christopher McQuarrie on a pair of Mission: Impossible movies.
For the last year though, it’s been known that Paramount Pictures has a Top Gun 3 in development, and that Tom Cruise is set to play Maverick for a third time.
We’re some way away from James Bond development time territory here, but what’s interesting is there’s been no immediate rush to get Top Gun 3 before cameras. Granted, people have been busy, but writer Ehren Kruger has been attached and co-star Jay Ellis has confirmed to Us Weekly that things have been quietly progressing.
Inevitably, he’s going along the party line a little, insisting that “they want to get it right.” But he does confirm that it’s still active, noting that “they’re still working on the script, they’re still working on the story.”
There was a time when this sketch from Rich Hall could have helped them with the plot…
Still, Cruise is active in its development, as producer of the film as well as its star. Jay Ellis – who played Payback in the last movie – adds that Tom Cruise “is a stickler, and that really comes from him wanting to make sure the audience gets what they paid for and that they’re entertained”.
Fair enough. It worked last time. Top Gun 3 isn’t going to be his next film once he’s done with Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning anyway. Presumably, once the story has been cracked, we’ll get some idea of a timetable. In the meantime, maybe Tom can give The Mummy 2 a bash…
