Top Gun 3 gets positive update following Skydance's Paramount purchase
After Skydance acquired Paramount last Thursday (07.08.25) for $8 billion, the fate of the studio's current projects were called into question, though Skydance CEO David Ellison has stressed that both the Top Gun: Maverick sequel and Star Trek remain a top priority for the company.
Ellison said: 'One of our biggest priorities is actually restoring Paramount as the No. 1 destination for the most talented artists and filmmakers in the world.
'Very simply, great filmmakers make great movies.'
Ellison's Skydance deputy Dana Goldberg also praised Tom Cruise, 63, for his work on Paramount projects like Top Gun and the Mission: Impossible franchise.
She said: 'It was to thank him for, frankly, the huge piece he's been in Paramount's history, Paramount's present and how important he is for Paramount's future.
'Top Gun 3 is a massive priority for us.'
Top Gun: Maverick - which is the legacy sequel to 1986's Top Gun - stars Cruise as naval captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell as he returns to the Navy's elite flight school to train a new generation of aviators, confronting his past while leading them on a dangerous mission.
Recently, director Joseph Kosinski teased the third Top Gun film would be 'much bigger' than 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.
The F1 filmmaker told GQ: 'I think we've found a way to do it, not only in the scale of what we're proposing, but the idea itself of the story we're telling.
'We're thinking much bigger than … It's a really existential crisis that Maverick has in this, and it's much bigger than himself.
'It actually … I'm trying to describe it without giving anything away. It's an existential question that Maverick has to deal with, that would make Maverick feel small, I think, as a movie, compared to what we're talking about.'
By the conclusion of Top Gun: Maverick, the naval captain passes the torch to the next generation of pilots, including Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Jake 'Hangman' Seresin (Glen Powell) and Robert 'Bob' Floyd (Lewis Pullman), though Kosinski teased there was 'still more story to tell' about Cruise's character.
The director said: 'Yeah, there's still more story to tell for him. There's one last ride. So we're working on it now.
'Ehren Kruger, who wrote F1, is writing the script. Like all things, it takes a while to work things out, and we'll only do it if we feel like we've got a strong enough story.'
Producer Christopher McQuarrie previously said the plot for the Top Gun: Maverick sequel was 'already in the bag'.
During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director said: 'It wasn't hard. I thought it would be, and that's a good place to go from is you walk into the room going, 'Come on, what are we going to do?' and 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.'
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