Top Gun 3: Release date speculation and latest news
The cast of the long-awaited sequel spoke exclusively to RadioTimes.com ahead of release.
Top Gun 3 is officially happening.
That's right, folks: it was confirmed earlier this year that a third movie was in development at Paramount, with Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger working on the script.
Details have since been scarce, but now Glen Powell has offered an exciting production update.
Durian an interview with Twisters co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Powell said he had a start date for Top Gun 3.
When asked whether a new Normal People season or a new Top Gun film would materialise first, Powell said: "I mean, I have a date."
So when could we expect Top Gun 3? Read on for everything you need to know about the film.
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Top Gun 3 release date speculation
The film might officially be in development, but there's no official release date as yet.
In May, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said he doesn’t think Top Gun 3 will happen anytime soon given that Tom Cruise is busy with other projects.
"We have a story. Joe Kosinski had a wonderful story idea for it, and [Tom] said 'I really like that', so we're developing it," he told ScreenRant.
"But you never know when it's going to get made because Tom is so busy. He's doing Mission: Impossible right now, he's got a picture after it. Hopefully, we'll get a screenplay that he loves, and we'll be back in the air again."
Who could star in Top Gun 3?
The cast is yet to be announced, but Tom Cruise, Miles Teller and Glen Powell are expected to return.
At the time of Top Gun: Maverick's release back in 2022, Rooster actor Miles Teller spoke to RadioTimes.com about the possibility of any more instalments.
"Well, I think that's up to Tom [Cruise]," he said. "But I mean, yeah, if somebody presents an idea to him, and he thinks it's worthy, and he wants me to continue playing this character – then yeah, I would love to."
Meanwhile, Jay Ellis had his own idea for a new direction in which to take the franchise.
"We talked about Top Gun: Payback earlier," he joked, referring to his own character in the film – with Greg Tarzan Davis, who plays Coyote, adding: "Yeah, that didn't get greenlit."
"We talked about like a road trip comedy too," Fanboy star Danny Ramirez added, before explaining why making another sequel might actually present too much of a challenge.
"I think so much about Top Gun: Maverick was, even in the flight sequences, you see the limits being pushed, and they get more intense," he said.
"And by the end, it's like some Top Gun pilots have never even flown something like this in real life. In regards to what we're telling narratively, it's like where does it go from there?
"Like, it's gotta continue the progression of pushing the limit, and that's where it feels tough to even think of what that could be. But if there was a universe, I'm down!"
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Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
