Tom Cruise will return for the third instalment of the Top Gun movie series, Paramount Studios announced during its CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is also set to return.
The film, sequel to 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, was first said to be in the works back in 2024 and written by Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote the 2022 film.
Top Gun: Maverick grossed $1.5 billion at the global box office from a $170 million budget.
The movie itself was a sequel to the 1986 classic starring Cruise as the hotshot pilot Lt. Pete Mitchell, code named Maverick. The film, that arrived 36 years after the first, saw Cruise returning to the flight school to teach a new batch of pilots.
The film also starred Miles Teller as Rooster, son of Cruise’s co-pilot in the first movie, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Monica Barbaro, Danny Ramirez, Jay Ellis, Greg Tarzan Davis, Manny Jacinto, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Charles Parnell, Ed Harris and Bashir Salahuddin. Val Kilmer, who starred opposite Cruise in the 1986 film as Tom Iceman Kazansky, also made a cameo. it was his final film role.
The director of the upcoming film has not been revealed yet. Maverick was directed by Joe Kosinski, while the late Tony Scott directed Top Gun.
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