Tom Cruise is heading to the skies as soon as once more with the affirmation of Top Gun 3.
While a sequel had been reportedly within the works since 2024, this week noticed an official announcement from Paramount in the course of the annual CinemaCon presentation. The 63-year-old will headline the third film within the motion drama collection with no different returning forged members confirmed.
Jerry Bruckheimer will probably be again as producer whereas director Joseph Kosinski is but to signal on. “We pitched Tom a story he liked,” Bruckheimer said in 2024. “But he’s a very in-demand actor and he’s got a lot of movies lined up, so we have to wait and see.”
Last yr, Cruise additionally spoke in regards to the challenge. “We’re thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what’s possible,” he said. “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.”
The movie follows the smash hit success of 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, which reached $1.5bn on the international field workplace and scored six Oscar nominations, together with finest image. It adopted up the Tony Scott-directed authentic launched in 1986.
A 3rd movie has been a precedence at Paramount ever because it accomplished its merger with Skydance in 2025, with David Ellison marking it out as essential. Paramount may also purchase Warner Bros in a $111bn deal, with Top Gun 3 to exist beneath the brand new bigger firm.
Ellison can also be reportedly hoping to make a Days of Thunder follow-up with the star.
During Paramount’s presentation this week, Ellison additionally doubled down on his hope to launch 30 films a yr beneath the Paramount-Warner banner. Other movies talked about within the upcoming slate embody Scary Movie 7, Taylor Sheridan’s Call of Duty adaptation, Damien Chazelle’s new movie starring Cillian Murphy and a brand new horror movie set within the Longlegs universe.
Cruise, who was final seen within the “final” Mission: Impossible movie, will subsequent topline Digger, the much-anticipated new movie from Oscar winner Alejandro G Iñárritu. The darkish comedy was additionally previewed this week at CinemaCon with attenders remarking on Cruise trying unrecognisable within the function of a billionaire who causes an environmental catastrophe.
