Tom Cruise‘s longtime collaborator Christopher McQuarrie has shared a promising update on a third Top Gun film – see what he had to say below.
McQuarrie – who has worked on every Tom Cruise film since 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – spoke about a potential third Top Gun film on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
McQuarrie has directed and written every Mission: Impossible film since 2015’s Rogue Nation, and has played a role in all of Cruise’s other projects in the last decade, including being a writer on Top Gun: Maverick, American Made, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back and The Mummy.
When asked if Top Gun 3 was “harder to crack” than Maverick, McQuarrie very quickly said: “It’s already in the bag.” He went on to explain: “I already know what it is. I thought it would be [harder], and that’s a good place to go from as you walk into the room going, ‘Come on, what are we going to do?’”
He continued: “Ehren Kruger pitched something and I went, ‘Mhm actually,’ and we had one conversation about it and the framework is there. So, no, it’s not hard to crack. The truth of the matter is, none of these are hard to crack.”
McQuarrie’s comments come after Cruise himself shed light on Top Gun 3 earlier this month: Yeah, we’re thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what’s possible. It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick, so all of these things we’re working on, we’re discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick.”
Cruise originated the role of Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in Top Gun in 1986, before reprising it in 2022 in Top Gun: Maverick.
In a three-star review of Top Gun: Maverick, Mark Beaumont wrote for NME: “Trickled between some breathtaking sequences of G-Force 9 air ballet, it makes for an entertaining blockbuster ride back into the danger zone, albeit one with the fuel pipe to its brain resolutely disengaged.”
Elsewhere, Cruise recently paid tribute to his late Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer, who died earlier last month, aged 65. Kilmer passed away on April 1 after a battle with pneumonia, as confirmed by his daughter Mercedes. He had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, but later made a recovery.
In other Top Gun-related news, the cousin of a Top Gun: Maverick writer has filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over script credits. Shaun Gray claimed he penned key scenes for the 2022 film after screenwriter Eric Warren Singer and director Joseph Kosinski enlisted his help to craft the story.
Paramount Pictures said in a statement that the lawsuit “is completely without merit” and that they “are confident that a court will reject this claim.”
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