Given how much money Top Gun: Maverick has pulled in at the box office, it should come as no surprise that sequel ideas are already getting batted around at Paramount. As of now, there are no official plans to develop a Top Gun 3, but perhaps all it will take is the right story for the gears to get turning on the potential threequel. Should that happen, we could also be seeing Tom Cruise flying back in as Maverick, as co-star Miles Teller says that the actor has had talks about the possibility.
Teller says as much in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight. He essentially makes it clear that Top Gun 3 all comes down to whether Cruise wants to get back on that plane. Teller admits that she’s been speaking with Cruise about it, though it doesn’t sound like he’s gotten any confirmation just yet from his co-star that a third movie is a go.
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“That would be great, but that’s all up to TC. It’s all up to Tom. I’ve been having some conversations with him about it. We’ll see.”
Teller adds that he’s developed a special relationship with Cruise after appearing with him in Top Gun: Maverick. He also refers to the immense box office profits being pulled in by the film as another factor that should hopefully help sway Cruise into coming back for a third installment. But even it Top Gun 3 never happens, Teller is grateful for getting the chance to do Part 2 with Cruise.
“For him to share Top Gun with me and a lot of these other young actors it’s just been such a wild ride, and it’s still going.”
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Top Gun: Maverick Has Earned More Than $1 Billion Worldwide
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While the original Top Gun movie is beloved, many fans and critics have taken very kindly to Top Gun: Maverick with some even saying that the new film is superior. It has nearly universal praise with a 96% score at Rotten Tomatoes, and better yet for the filmmakers, the box office profits have also been astronomical. The film is the highest-grossing movie of the year with more than $1.2 billion earned so far (and climbing). With its profits already earned, Top Gun: Maverick is the highest-grossing film of Tom Cruise’s career.
But Tom Cruise almost missed out on this success, as he did not want to do the sequel initially. Previously speaking with Vulture, director Joseph Kosinski detailed what it was like to get Cruise involved. Kosinski suggested that he had to grab Cruise “emotionally,” so the hook was a solid story that made sense for Maverick’s return. Perhaps that’s what it would take for a Part 3 to happen as well.
“The first film is a drama, even though it’s wrapped in this glossy action film,” Kosinski said, explaining his pitch to Cruise. “This would be the same thing, but it would be Maverick reconciling with Goose’s son set against this mission that would take them both deep into enemy territory. And as soon as I said that, I could see the wheels in his head start to turn. Then I pitched the idea of Dark Star, the opening sequence, what Maverick’s doing when we find him. Which I think was also important because Maverick is still Maverick, but he’s not buzzing the tower at the local air base. He’s on the cutting edge of aviation, pushing the envelope as always. But he’s alone. He’s alone at the beginning of this film.”
Kosinski added, “Then I talked about shooting practically, and obviously Tom’s 100 percent in for all that. And then the title. I said we can’t call it Top Gun 2. We’ve got to call it Top Gun: Maverick — a character story. So he pulled out his phone, called the head of Paramount, and said, ‘We’re making a sequel to Top Gun.’ And it was boom, green light.”
Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in movie theaters. It’s not yet clear when the film will be released on streaming.
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