Overview

• Christopher McQuarrie and Ehren Kruger have secured the Top Gun 3 plot framework, with McQuarrie confirming the story is “already in the bag.”
• Tom Cruise has affirmed the sequel’s development and is set to reprise Pete “Maverick” MitchellParamount has not announced a release date.
• Miles Teller and Glen Powell are expected to return to their Maverick roles in the third installment.
• No director has been officially attached, and McQuarrie has not ruled out moving from writer to director duties after Joseph Kosinski.
• McQuarrie cautions that recapturing the emotional core that drove Maverick’s success will be the sequel’s primary challenge.