Top Gun 3 in development with Tom Cruise, Glen Powell and Miles Teller set all to return

A third Top Gun movie is in development at Paramount after the enormous impact of Top Gun: Maverick.

The sequel to 1980s favourite Top Gun was released last summer to enormous commercial and critical success. On a budget of $170 million, it grossed an astonishing $1.49 billion worldwide which is by far the highest-grossing film in the career of superstar actor, Tom Cruise.

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The movie was praised for its spectacular action sequences and how it emotionally tied to the first movie.

In Top Gun: Maverick, Pete Mitchell returns to the Top Gun academy to act as mentor and teacher to a group of elite new recruits, led by Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the son of his best friend Goose, who died in the first movie.

The success of the movie has led to natural speculation about a sequel, and when previously asked by Games Radar about a third entry in the Top Gun series, director Joseph Kosinski replied:. we’re hoping to shoot next year.

"But maybe down the road, when we have a little more perspective on (Top Gun: Maverick) we can ask: is there more to this story that’s worth telling?"

Puck now reports that Maverick scribe Ehren Kruger is working on a script for number three, with the idea being that Cruise, Kosinski, Miles Teller and Glen Powell all return, too.

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

It's been years since Pete "Maverick" Mitchell took pilot training with Top Gun. He is now an old hand in the business and has returned unexpectedly. He then takes on the role of mentor to train a new generation of fighter pilots.

Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Stars: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly

What would a Maverick sequel look like?

One of the breakout characters of Maverick was Rooster, played by Teller. And, the actor himself previously revealed that he has already pitched a third movie in the series - Top Gun: Rooster.

"That would be great, but that's all up to TC," Teller admitted to Entertainment Tonight.

"It's all up to Tom. I've been having some conversations with him about it. We'll see.

"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,"

Teller previously told ScreenRant: 

"I'm trying to get a Top Gun: Rooster. I've been pitching it. We'll see what happens. I don't know. I think it's interesting. Obviously, everybody was begging Tom to do a sequel right after the first one came out. I think this movie puts a nice bow on it; it really kind of wraps it up, but we'll see. I'm available."