Tom Cruise set to return to cockpit for Top Gun 3

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Tom Cruise appears set to reprise his function as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in a 3rd Top Gun film.

The 61-year-old motion star first performed the character in 1986’s Top Gun and returned in 2022 for Top Gun: Maverick, which was a massively profitable field workplace hit grossing $1.496 billion worldwide.

Now, Puck News studies that Paramount has commissioned Top Gun: Maverick screenwriter Ehren Kruger to begin work on a 3rd instalment within the franchise.

Additionally, sources instructed The Hollywood Reporter that the studio additionally plans for director Joseph Kosinski to return and for Cruise to reunite along with his co-stars Glen Powell and Miles Teller.

While it’s no shock that Paramount would look to repeat the success of Top Gun: Maverick, the information has brought about some eyebrows to be raised in Hollywood as Cruise not too long ago signed a brand new take care of rival studio Warner Bros.

Cruise will develop and star in movies for Warner Bros, however the contract is non-exclusive so the star is ready to proceed engaged on Top Gun 3 at Paramount.

As properly as being a industrial hit, Top Gun: Maverick was additionally nominated for Best Picture finally yr’s Oscars.

At the time, Steven Spielberg stated he was “encouraged” to see the blockbuster on the shortlist together with Avatar: The Way of Water.

“I’m really encouraged by that,” stated the legendary ET director. “[But] it came late for the film that should have been nominated a number of years ago, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

“That movie would have definitely garnered a Best Picture Nomination today, so having these two blockbusters solidly presented on the top 10 list is something we should all be celebrating.”

In her four-star evaluate of Top Gun: Maverick for The Independent, movie critic Clarisse Loughrey wrote: “The film is a true legacy sequel. In the tradition of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s a carefully reconstructed clone of its predecessor, tooled not only to reflect changing tastes and attitudes, but the ascendancy of its star Tom Cruise to a level of fame that borders on the mythological. Do we still think of Cruise as a man these days, or as an idea?”

She added: (*3*)