TOP GUN 3 Is Officially in the Works With a Script on the Way - Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer on Board
Top Gun 3 has been teased for a while now, but this week at CinemaCon, Paramount film co-head Josh Greenstein gave the update, “Top Gun 3 officially in development with a script well underway, reuniting Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer.”
There was no mention of a director at this point, but Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger was hired to write a script two years ago.
Maverick was directed by Joe Kosinski and also starred Miles 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.
While Cruise was not onstage during the Top Gun announcement, he did take part in the Paramount presentation in a significant way, kicking off the event with a video filmed on the Melrose Avenue lot’s iconic water tower.
Stay tuned for updates on the sequel.
