Maverick is likely to be flying again to the massive display screen a lot earlier than anticipated.
Simply days after Tom Cruise teased the way forward for the “Top Gun” franchise, Christopher McQuarrie appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast to disclose that the following movie is “already in the bag.”
“I already know what it is. It wasn’t hard,” McQuarrie, who co-wrote and produced “Top Gun: Maverick,” stated on Monday. “I thought it would be, and that’s a good place to walk from.”
“You walk into the room going, ‘Come on, what are we going to do?’ And Ehren Kruger pitched something, and we had one conversation about it,” he added of his fellow “Top Gun: Maverick” author. “The framework is there, so it’s not hard to crack.”
Earlier this month, Cruise himself teased “Top Gun 3” throughout an look on Australia’s “Today” present.
“Yeah, we’re thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what’s possible,” the 62-year-old actor stated on the time.
“It took me 35 years to figure out ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’” he continued, “so all of these things we’re working on, we’re discussing ‘Days of Thunder’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick.’”
However the “Edge of Tomorrow” star added that he was additionally engaged on “numerous other films” for the time being – together with one with Alejandro Iñárritu, plus different initiatives with McQuarrie.
“There are numerous other films that we’re actively working on right now,” Cruise stated. “I’m always shooting a film, prepping a film, posting a film.”
“I just finished a film with Alejandro Iñárritu too, who did ‘The Revenant,’ that was an extraordinary experience,” he continued, “and McQuarrie and I are always working on several different films.”
“Top Gun: Maverick,” which was launched in 2022, marked Cruise’s first return to the position of Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for the reason that unique “Top Gun” in 1986.
Whereas the sequel noticed Cruise’s character prepare a brand new era of TOPGUN pilots – like Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Jake “Hangman” Seresin (Glen Powell) and Robert “Bob” Floyd (Lewis Pullman) – it additionally noticed the return of the late Val Kilmer’s Tom “Iceman” Kazansky.
The information concerning “Top Gun 3” this week got here shortly after Cruise introduced his plans to proceed making films for not less than one other 40 extra years.
“I’m going to make them into my 100s,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter throughout the premiere of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” earlier this month.
“I will never stop,” Cruise added. “I will never stop doing action, I will never stop doing drama, comedy films – I’m excited.”
His newest feedback additionally come amid romance rumors linking him with Ana de Armas.
In response to insiders, Cruise is “super smitten” and has caught “feelings” for the 37-year-old actress.
“They’ve gone out on some dates, and it’s very low-key,” an insider advised Us Weekly earlier this month. “It’s in the early stages, and he’s been courting her.”
Nevertheless, different insiders insisted that the pair are “just friends.”
De Armas herself confirmed that she and Cruise, in addition to McQuarrie, are at the moment “working on a lot of things” collectively.
“We’re definitely working on a lot of things,” she advised “Good Morning America” on Could 15. “Not just one but a few projects with Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie and, of course, Tom.”
“And I’m so excited,” the “Knives Out” actress added on the time.
