‘Top Gun 3’ with Tom Cruise is in the works: report

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Puck News. The new installment would see the “Mission Impossible” star, 61, return to his role of naval aviator Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, as well as his “Top Gun: Maverick” co-stars Miles Teller and Glen Powell.

The first “Top Gun” movie premiered in 1986, with the second becoming a major box office success and raking in more than $1.5 billion in 2022.“Top Gun: Maverick” co-writer Ehren Kruger and director Joe Kosinski are allegedly returning for the third script.The Post has reached out to Paramount for comment.Cruise recently signed a deal with Warner Bros.

Discovery, stating that he will star and produce movies for the studio.However, the contract is nonexclusive, and therefore the megawatt star is able to appear in other projects.

The “Jerry Maguire” actor is currently in production for “Mission: Impossible 8” — set for release in 2025 — so “Top Gun 3” might take some time to get made.“Top Gun: Maverick” was released more than three decades after the parent film, and saw the return of Cruise’s character as he meets the next generation of navy pilots.Powell, 35, played LT Jake “Hangman” Seresin, while Teller, 35, portrayed Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw.Last year, the “Scream Queens” alum revealed how he bonded with Cruise on set in an interview with Men’s Health.“We would watch movies and talk about certain actors that he was kind of like, what the body posture was,” Powell recalled at the time.“He was like, ‘You as a person are very apologetic.