Paramount is reportedly working on a third Top Gun movie - despite the fact that Tom Cruise recently signed a deal with Warner Bros. to produce films for that studio.
The report comes via Puck News, and has been verified by both THR and Variety. Per the reports, Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger is on board to write the script, and Paramount hopes to get Maverick's Joseph Kosinski back into the director's chair.
Paramount is also reportedly aiming to reunite Cruise with Miles Teller and Glen Powell, Cruise's younger-gen co-stars that were introduced in Top Gun: Maverick.
Top Gun: Maverick was a massive success for Paramount in the summer of 2022, so it's little surprise that the studio would continue to want to mine that series for gold. Nearly 30 years after the release of the original Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick quickly became not only Cruise's highest-grossing movie, but one of the highest-grossing movies ever period with $1.49 billion worldwide.
What might seem odd, however, is that the news comes just days after Warner Bros. announced their deal with Cruise, under which he'll produce original and franchise films for WB. That pact, however, is non-exclusive, meaning Cruise is still free to work with other studios - including Paramount, should it get its wishes.
Cruise's most recent movie under his previous partnership with Paramount was Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. Unlike Top Gun: Maverick, the latest Mission: Impossible disappointed at the box office, thanks at least in part to opening shortly before the phenomenon that was the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer.
IGN has reached out to Paramount for comment on the Top Gun 3 news.
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