Overview
- Paramount film chief Josh Greenstein said Thursday at CinemaCon that Top Gun 3 is officially in development with a script underway, reuniting Tom Cruise and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
- The studio did not name a director, set a release date, or confirm any returning cast beyond Cruise.
- Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote Maverick, is writing the new script, and Christopher McQuarrie has said a story framework already exists.
- Cruise appeared in a video shown at the presentation, seated atop the Paramount lot’s water tower and saying the future looks pretty great from here.
- At CinemaCon, the film industry’s annual trade show for theater owners, Paramount pointed to Maverick’s roughly $1.5 billion haul that made a threequel a priority.