Looks like “Top Gun 3” is about to take off.
Jerry Bruckheimer gave a major update on a potential third installment of the “Top Gun” franchise in a new with interview with ScreenRant.
The producer, 80, and “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski approached Tom Cruise with a “wonderful” idea, and proudly stated that the action star “really liked it.”
8 Producer Jerry Bruckheimer gave fans a major update on a potential third installment of the “Top Gun” franchise. Jeff Spicer/Getty Images
8 In an interview with ScreenRant, the legendary producer revealed that he and director Joseph Kosinski had approached Tom Cruise with a “wonderful” idea and proudly stated that the action star “really liked it.” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
“Joe Kosinski had a wonderful story idea for it, and [Cruise] said, ‘I really like that,’ so we’re developing it,” Bruckheimer told the outlet. “But you never know when it’s going to get made because Tom is so busy.”
“He’s doing ‘Mission: Impossible’ right now; he’s got a picture after it,” continued the producer. “Hopefully, we’ll get a screenplay that he loves and we’ll be back in the air again.”
In January, Puck News published a report seemingly confirming that Paramount Pictures ordered another “Top Gun” sequel after “Maverick” earned the company a whopping $1.5 billion at the box office.
While not much is known about the plot, Cruise, 61, will return as naval aviator Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell alongside Glen Powell and Miles Teller, who made their franchise debuts in the 2022 film.
8 Bruckheimer’s update on the threequel comes a few months after Puck News published a report seemingly confirming that Paramount Pictures had ordered another film after “Top Gun: Maverick” earned the company a whopping $1.5 billion at the box office. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
8 Bruckheimer (far right) also served as a producer on the first-ever “Top Gun” film. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
Variety reported that production has tapped Ehren Kruger to re-join Kosinski, 49, in writing the movie’s script.
Earlier this year, Powell, 35, joked at Sundance that details on the project are “confidential.”
8 “A lot of actors, they finish the day, they get in their car and they go home,” Bruckheimer said. “Tom stays around, talks to the other actors, looks at the film that they shot, wants to know what’s happening tomorrow. He’s really engaged in every part of the process.” Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
“People looked at me like I knew what was going on,” he said at the time. “There is going to be some fun stuff being announced soon … but it was confidential to me.”
“I talk to Kosinski, Cruise and Jerry all the time,” he added. “There is stuff happening and it sounds very exciting. I don’t know when I’ll be going back … I’m sure there is a jet waiting for me sometime in the future.”
Cruise is currently filming the eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” series, which will serve as a sequel to last year’s Oscar-nominated “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part 1.”
8 Not much is known about the threequel, but Miles Teller and Glen Powell are expected to return. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
8 When asked at Sundance earlier this year if he had any details about the new film, Powell, 35, joked that it was “confidential.” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
8 Cruise is currently filming the eighth installment of the “Mission: Impossible” series, which will serve as a sequel to last year’s Oscar-nominated “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1.” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection
During an interview with People, Bruckheimer, who also produced the first “Top Gun” film in 1986, gushed over the latest film’s “fantastic” legacy.
“Just the fact that we can entertain so many people around the world was something that we worked so hard on. It is just the best there is,” he told the outlet. “Just to stand back in the theater and watch an audience applaud and cry and laugh. Laughter is the best thing in the world.”
He also lauded Cruise’s work ethic.
“A lot of actors, they finish the day, they get in their car and they go home,” Bruckheimer said. “Tom stays around, talks to the other actors, looks at the film that they shot, wants to know what’s happening tomorrow. He’s really engaged in every part of the process.”
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