IBNS-CMEDIA: Tom Cruise is set to return to the big screen, soaring through the skies once again in high-speed fighter jets, as the makers have officially confirmed Top Gun 3, the third instalment in the Top Gun series.
Although a sequel had reportedly been in development since 2024, Paramount Pictures formally announced Top Gun 3 during its annual CinemaCon presentation.
According to reports, Cruise will reprise his iconic role, though no other cast members have been confirmed so far.
Top Gun 3 will reportedly be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who had earlier hinted at the project’s progress.
“We pitched Tom a story he liked,” Bruckheimer said in 2024, as quoted by The Guardian. “But he’s a very in-demand actor with a packed schedule, so we’ll have to wait and see.”
Speaking about the project last year, Cruise told The Guardian: “It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick. So, all of these things we’re working on—we’re discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick.”
Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick was a massive global success, grossing around $1.5 billion at the box office on a $170 million budget, even as the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cruise first took to the skies as the daring pilot in the original Top Gun, which was released in 1986 and became a cultural phenomenon.
