Positive Top Gun 3 update following Paramount purchase
After Skydance acquired Paramount on August 7 for $US8 billion ($A12 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 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."
The third Top Gun movie is a big priority for Skydance Media following the studio's purchase of Paramount Global.
After Skydance acquired Paramount on August 7 for $US8 billion ($A12 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 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."
The third Top Gun movie is a big priority for Skydance Media following the studio's purchase of Paramount Global.
After Skydance acquired Paramount on August 7 for $US8 billion ($A12 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 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."
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