{"id":534810,"date":"2026-04-16T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534810\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:35:10","slug":"top-gun-3-script-underway-to-reunite-tom-cruise-jerry-bruckheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534810\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Top Gun 3&#8217; &#8220;Script Underway&#8221; to Reunite Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/top-gun-3-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_top-gun-3-2_1\" data-tag=\"top-gun-3-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Gun 3<\/a> is officially getting ready for takeoff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cTop Gun 3 officially in development with a script well underway, reuniting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tom-cruise\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-cruise_1\" data-tag=\"tom-cruise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise<\/a> and Jerry Bruckheimer,\u201d Paramount film co-head Josh Greenstein said Thursday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cinemacon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cinemacon_1\" data-tag=\"cinemacon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CinemaCon<\/a>. There was no mention of a director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe follow-up to 2022\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/top-gun-3-in-the-works-with-tom-cruise-1235786347\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the works<\/a> for several years now, with Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger hired to write a script two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMaverick was directed by Joe Kosinski and also starred Miles Teller and Glen Powell. The sequel \u2014 which came decades after Tony Scott\u2019s 1986 original \u2014\u00a0was a massive hit at the box office in 2022, earning $1.5 billion globally and sparking Steven Spielberg to credit Cruise with saving the theatrical business after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDavid Ellison, now the owner of Paramount, produced Maverick via his company Skydance; when meeting with press last summer as he discussed his plans for the studio, Ellison specifically cited Top Gun 3 as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/david-ellison-top-gun-star-trek-1236343043\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top priority<\/a> for Paramount and said he would be in the Cruise business as long as the A-list star \u2014 with whom he has made 10 films \u2014 wanted to tell stories with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd while Cruise was not onstage during the Top Gun announcement, he did take part in the Paramount presentation in a significant way, kicking off the event with a video filmed on the Melrose Avenue lot\u2019s iconic water tower. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/tom-cruise-shoots-video-for-paramount-1236525443\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR reported<\/a> the shooting of the secret video last month and it came to life at CinemaCon, with Cruise touting the history and legacy of Paramount, will also celebrating its future under the new leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the video, directed by Jon M. Chu, Cruise provided voiceover as dozens of major stars helped highlight some of the studio\u2019s biggest hits over the years. It ended with Cruise sitting atop the water tower and declaring, \u201cThe future looks pretty great from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top Gun 3 is officially getting ready for takeoff. \u201cTop Gun 3 officially in development with a script&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,167494,183472,96,17293,184878,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-534810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-cinemacon","10":"tag-cinemacon-2026","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-tom-cruise","13":"tag-top-gun-3","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}