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Tom Cruise is gearing as much as fly again for a 3rd installment of “Top Gun.”
A script for an additional iteration of the high-octane aviation film franchise is within the works at Paramount, a person near the venture tells CNN.
The movie is in very early phases of improvement, however plans are underway for the sequel which is able to comply with 2022’s “High Gun: Maverick” and the unique “High Gun” from 1986, the supply stated.
No offers are in place but, however CNN has realized that the thought is to reunite the producers of the movie – Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joseph Kosinski – and provided that the movie can be a sequel to “Maverick,” Cruise’s youthful co-stars, Miles Teller and Glen Powell, would conceivably even be again.
The script will not be finalized, however a primary draft is being developed by author Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote “High Gun: Maverick,” this supply additionally stated.
Paramount declined to remark. Representatives for Cruise didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark.
Information of one other “High Gun” sequel was first reported by Puck.
Growing one other sequel will not be an enormous shock, given the huge success of “High Gun: Maverick,” which turned essentially the most profitable movie of Cruise’s profession, grossing almost $1.5 billion worldwide and nabbing six Oscar nominations, together with for greatest image and tailored screenplay (the film received one Academy Award, for sound).
The information of the subsequent “High Gun” movie comes after CNN reported earlier this week that Cruise lately signed a non-exclusive take care of Warner Bros. Discovery to develop and produce theatrical movies. (Warner Bros. Discovery is the father or mother firm of CNN.)