Jerry Bruckheimer teases “terrific” follow-up to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’
nme.comTop Gun: Maverick‘.In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 80-year-old industry legend revealed that a story has been written for the third movie in the action franchise, and says it is now a case of getting Tom Cruise and the other cast members on board.“I think we have a terrific story.
It’s just (a question of) how do we get everybody together and how do we get it done,” he said.“Tom’s very busy. He’s got a lot of movies lined up, and he’s a very in-demand actor.
So we’ll have to get a good screenplay, and hopefully, he’ll like it as much as we will.”Reports about Top Gun 3‘s development emerged earlier this year, and Glen Powell – who starred in Top Gun: Maverick as Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin – seemingly confirmed the news when he stated that some “fun stuff” was happening in regards to the third film.Speaking to Variety about the rumoured threequel, he said: “People looked at me like I knew what was going on.“There is going to be some fun stuff being announced soon…but it was confidential to me.
I talk to [Joseph] Kosinski, Cruise and Jerry [Bruckheimer] all the time. There is stuff happening and it sounds very exciting.
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