Top Gun 3 Officially Confirmed With Script in Development

We've known for a mates of years that Top Gun 3 was going to happen, but Paramount conscionable confirmed the publication was officially successful advancement during its CinemaCon presentation. Tom Cruise volition instrumentality arsenic Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Jerry Bruckheimer volition beryllium backmost arsenic producer, but there's nary connection connected the instrumentality of immoderate different Top Gun oregon Top Gun: Maverick cast.

Back successful June past year, Maverick manager Joseph Kosinski gave GQ an update connected Top Gun 3 and specifically connected however helium saw the communicative evolving. "I deliberation we've recovered a mode to bash it, not lone successful the standard of what we're proposing, but the thought itself of the communicative we're telling," helium said.

"We're reasoning overmuch bigger than… It's a truly existential situation that Maverick has successful this, and it's overmuch bigger than himself. It actually… I'm trying to picture it without giving thing away. [Laughs.] It's an existential question that Maverick has to woody with, that would marque Maverick consciousness small, I think, arsenic a movie, compared to what we're talking about."

We person had hints that we tin expect to spot immoderate formed members return. Back successful 2022, Miles Teller, who plays Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, said helium would beryllium up for reprising his relation and mentioned helium had been successful talks with Cruise astir it. In 2024, Glen Powell, AKA Jake "Hangman" Seresin, besides fto gaffe that helium had "a date" for Top Gun 3.

The occurrence of Top Gun: Maverick meant a sequel was ever connected the way, but this is the archetypal authoritative confirmation that accumulation has started. Maverick really premiered astatine 2022's CinemaCon and went connected to go the second-highest-grossing movie of 2022 and the highest-grossing movie of Cruise's career.

Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.