Top Gun 3 coming soon: will Tom Cruise dress up as an aviator again?

There are no twos without threes. The Paramount studio has started working on the third part of the successful saga of top Gun and, logically, hopes to be able to add more Tom Cruise for the lead role.

The co-writer of Top Gun: nonconformistEhren Kruger, is already “officially” working on this new project for which Paramount is still trying to convince director Joe Kosinski, with the premise of reuniting Cruise with Miles Teller and Glen Powell.

Released in 2022, Top Gun: nonconformist was a huge hit for Paramount, with a collection of almost 1.5 billion dollars in terms of international receipts. Moreover, this second part was nominated for an Oscar as best film last year.

Despite all this, plan A is whether or not to find a way to convince Cruise to dress as an aviator again.

An agreement with another studio

The news of the third episode of top Gun It became known only three days later an agreement between Cruise and the Warner Bros. Discovery studio has been made public for the actor to produce, develop and star in new films or franchises starting this year, as part of an association described as “strategic” by both parties.

As part of this deal, the American star will also have his own offices for his production company within the company’s facilities in Burbank, Los Angeles.

However, This new contract does not include exclusivity clausesthus the actor can continue to make films with other companies with which he already has a long history (in the case of Paramount itself), with which, in addition to being able to make the third of top Gunis also in talks for Mission: Impossible 8.

The original film

THE top Gun The original premiered in 1986. Four weeks after its release, the number of theaters showing it, contrary to what always happens, increased by 45%. Needless to say, the film was a great commercial success, grossing $356 million against an initial production budget of no more than $15 million.

In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation archives in the National Film Registry, deeming it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The sequel (Top Gun: nonconformist) was released 36 years later, in 2022, to huge commercial success.

This new step in the saga of top Gun This explains why the industry came to believe that the sequel to Maverick had “saved cinema” after the serious audience crisis caused by the pandemic. Now upper gun 3 It will be a reality, although not in the short term.

The filming date for the franchise is still awaiting confirmation. The film’s production and the actor’s schedule are busy, hence the premiere The new Maverick could only happen in 2026 or 2027.