Jun 27, 2025 09:17 AM IST
Joseph Kosinski confirms a 3rd Prime Gun movie is in growth, here is all the pieces he stated
After sending Tom Cruise, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller sky-high in Prime Gun: Maverick (2022), director Joseph Kosinski is gearing up for extra high-speed motion, however this time, it’s on the bottom with System One. Whereas Kosinski’s upcoming F1 movie is already producing main buzz post-release, the director simply dropped some juicy tidbits about what’s subsequent for Prime Gun followers.
In a brand new interview with GQ, Kosinski confirmed that Prime Gun 3 could be very a lot in growth, and it guarantees to go deeper than ever earlier than. “I feel we have discovered a option to do it,” he stated. “Not solely within the scale of what we’re proposing, however the concept itself of the story we’re telling. We’re considering a lot larger… it’s a extremely existential disaster that Maverick has on this.” With out revealing an excessive amount of, Kosinski teased that this subsequent instalment received’t simply be about aerial stunts or adrenaline-pumping flight scenes. “It’s an existential query that Maverick has to take care of, that may make Maverick really feel small, I feel, as a film, in comparison with what we’re speaking about.”
And whereas many assumed Prime Gun: Maverick was a baton-passing second, Kosinski insists there’s extra story left for Cruise’s iconic character. “Yeah, there’s nonetheless extra story to inform for him. There’s one final experience. So we’re engaged on it now,” he stated, confirming that F1 screenwriter Ehren Kruger is penning the script.
However that’s not all Kosinski is dreaming up. When requested if he’d wish to unite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a single film once more, the director didn’t miss a beat. “Proper now, it might be Cole Trickle [Cruise’s 1990 character from Days of Thunder]. We discover out that he and Sonny Hayes [Pitt’s character in F1] have a previous. They have been rivals in some unspecified time in the future, possibly crossed paths…” Kosinski even referenced an previous rumour8 a few go-kart battle between Cruise and Pitt on the Interview with the Vampire set, earlier than grinning: “Who wouldn’t pay to see these two go head-to-head on the monitor?”
