UPDATE 10.2.25: If you enjoyed Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick like Your Survival Guy did, you were happy to learn in 2024 about the development of a third movie in the series, the yet-to-be-named Top Gun 3. At a recent conference for TheWrap, producer Jerry Bruckheimer discussed the upcoming film. Dan Girolamo reports:
According to Bruckheimer, Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote Top Gun: Maverick, is expected to turn in the latest draft for Top Gun 3 next month.
Top Gun 3 was first announced in January 2024. Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is expected to direct the third movie. Cruise is attached to return as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. The plan for Top Gun 3 is to pair Cruise with Miles Teller and Glen Powell, who played Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw and Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Top Gun: Maverick.
In May, Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Christopher McQuarrie revealed that he and Kruger “cracked the story” for Top Gun 3.
“Ehren Kruger pitched something, and I went, ‘Mhm, actually,’ and we had one conversation about it, and the framework is there,” McQuarrie said. “So, no, it’s not hard to crack. The truth of the matter is, none of these are hard to crack.”
Originally posted July 5, 2022.
“Talk to me, Goose!” If you haven’t seen the sequel to Top Gun, then this is your chance to see it in a movie theater and realize how fast time flies. Because with the opening scene for Top Gun: Maverick, you’ll be brought back in time. It’s hard to believe it’s been 36 years since the first one. And yet, Tom Cruise looks about the same. Incredible he turned 60 over the Fourth of July weekend.
You’ll want to see Top Gun: Maverick at a movie theater because one of the best parts is the applause from the audience when the closing credits roll. It’s been years since we’ve been to a theater, and with the seats as comfortable as your dad’s old leather chair and the ease of buying tickets the night before, you’ll be ready to take flight.
When the lights dim and Tom Cruise personally introduces the movie, you know how special this is for him and how proud he is of the final product. That’s saying something. And if you haven’t seen the original Top Gun, don’t worry it’s not a requirement. But if you grew up in my household, you knew dad liked watching the beginning of Top Gun every July Fourth. I remember like it was yesterday, growing up in the 80s. I’d cut the grass with the Top Gun soundtrack tape in my Sony Walkman or ride my 10-speed Schwinn like a bat out of hell to “Danger Zone.”
Action Line: Who said you can’t time travel? Tom Cruise makes it happen in Top Gun: Maverick. Happy Summer to you and yours. What a special gift.
