Nearly a year after Paramount Pictures’ announcement Top Gun 3one of the action franchise’s stars offers an encouraging update on the vaunted trio. Top Gun: Maverick actor Miles Teller says “there’s a lot of excitement” about the follow-up currently in development.
Talk with Collider at the Comic Con Experience (CCXP) in São Paulo, Teller admitted he didn’t know how far Top Gun 3 the script is then waiting for an update. However, he and his co-stars are excited about the upcoming film, insisting lead actor Tom Cruise would “give me enough time” to prepare for the third installment once the filming date is confirmed. “We’ll see what happens. All I know is that Tom said that, since he’s the first to know, he will give me enough time to come back Top Gun shape. And that’s all I asked for. But there is a lots of enthusiasm on both sidesfans and Top Gun team,” Teller said.
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Last January, Paramount confirmed that Top Gun 3 was currently in development at the studio. The announcement came a year and a half later Nonconformist was released theatrically, although franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer insisted fans would have to wait an extended period of time before the trio hit theaters worldwide. Maverick was created 36 years after the original Top GunCruise reprising his central role as flight instructor and test pilot, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
Top Gun 3 remains in early development
Cruise is set to lead the Top Gun threequel alongside Teller, who starred in Nonconformist as Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, a training pilot and son of Pete’s late best friend, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw. The film will also see Glen Powell return as F/A-18E pilot Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Bradshaw’s rival. Powell echoed Teller’s sentiments months earlier, insisting the prospect of a threesome is “exciting” as he looks forward to the storyline. Meanwhile, Jon Hamm, who played Naval Air Force Commander Vice Admiral Beau “Cyclone” Simpson, in Nonconformistdid not exclude a Top Gun 3 appearance, although he has yet to be approached by producers to reprise the role.
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Nonconformist took off critically and commercially, becoming a worthy sequel to the fondly remembered film Top Gun. The long-awaited sequel grossed $1.496 billion at the worldwide box office and earned six Academy Award nominations, winning Best Sound and earning a Best Picture nomination. The film is also the highest-grossing film of Cruise’s decorated career, validating his insistence on releasing the film theatrically after offers to make it a streaming exclusive.
Even if we know nothing about Top Gun 3It was previously claimed that Teller’s Bradshaw could play a larger role in the film after initially pitching a follow-up focused on his character in 2022. Teller’s next big screen appearances will be in Teller’s survival action film Scott Derrickson and Zach Dean, ThroatAnd Michaelthe highly anticipated biopic chronicling the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
Fans can stream Nonconformist via Paramount+.
Source: Collider
After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the boundaries as a top naval aviator, but must confront the ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN’s elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice of those chosen to pilot it.
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Joseph Kosinski
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May 27, 2022
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Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Jay Ellis, Jon Hamm, Bashir Salahuddin, Charles Parnell, Lewis Pullman, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Ed Harris
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Ashley Miller, Justin Marks, Peter Craig, Zack Stentz
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130 minutes
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Action
- prequels
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Top Gun
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- Story by
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Peter Craig, Justin Marks
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- Budget
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$170 million