“Top Gun 3” Is Closer Than You Think as Writer Reveals the Plot Is 'Already in the Bag'

A storyline has already been group for a 3rd installment to nan Top Gun franchise.

Christopher McQuarrie, 56, who co-wrote and produced nan 2022 container agency sensation Top Gun: Maverick, shared immoderate penetration into really nan 3rd movie is progressing connected nan May 26th section of Josh Horowitz’s Happy, Sad Confused podcast.

When big Horowitz asked him whether Top Gun 3 was “harder to ace successful immoderate ways than Top Gun: Maverick,” nan writer and shaper admitted, “No, it’s already successful nan bag.”

“I already cognize what it is. It wasn’t hard,” McQuarrie, who besides directed Cruise successful respective Mission: Impossible films, added.

He went connected to opportunity that he thought it “would be” difficult to travel up pinch a storyline for nan 3rd movie, but that yet nan writers were capable to deliberation of a premise that worked. 

“You locomotion into nan room going, ‘Come on, what are we going to do?’ And [Top Gun: Maverick writer] Ehren Kruger sounded something, and I went ‘Hmm, actually…’ And we had 1 speech astir it,” McQuarrie explained. 

“The model is there, truthful no, it’s not difficult to crack,” he added.

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McQuarrie shared that “none” of nan films are “hard to crack” erstwhile it comes to nan storyline, but what really makes aliases breaks a movie is nan measurement it is “executed.” He said that 1 of nan main things that has to radiance done nan Top Gun films is nan “emotion” and bosom of nan characters. 

“Getting to that place, uncovering nan correct affectional equilibrium wherein you person a conflict betwixt these 2 characters [Maverick and Goose]… Tom [Cruise] and I inherently understood that balance…” he said.

McQuarrie’s comments travel a fewer months aft Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick shaper Jerry Bruckheimer, 80, teased to PEOPLE while promoting his film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, that they were “working on" Top Gun 3.

"We sounded Tom a communicative he liked. But he's a very in-demand character and he's sewage a batch of movies lined up, truthful we person to hold and see," Bruckheimer added astatine nan time. 

Top Gun: Maverick grossed astir $1.5 billion astatine nan worldwide container agency pursuing its merchandise successful 2022. The sequel was nan highest-grossing movie astatine nan home container agency that almanac twelvemonth and presently stands retired arsenic nan fifth-highest-grossing movie of each time successful nan U.S. and 12th-highest successful nan world.

Multiple Maverick stars antecedently confirmed that location person been talks of a 3rd installment. Miles Teller, who plays Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw successful nan film, revealed successful July 2022 that he and Cruise had "been having immoderate conversations" about the anticipation of different movie. 

Glen Powell, who portrayed Lt. Jake "Hangman," successful nan movie besides shared successful July 2024 that he had "a date" erstwhile it came to filming nan 3rd installment of nan Top Gun series.