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Top Gun: Maverick‘s writer-producer Christopher McQuarrie offers an update on Top Gun 3. The sequel was confirmed to be in the works at Paramount in January 2024 following the Tom Cruise movie’s success. Maverick‘s co-writer Ehren Kruger is penning the script, and Joseph Kosinski is reportedly returning as a director. Miles Teller, Glen Powell, and Cruise are expected to reprise their roles.
In an interview with Josh Horowitz for an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the writer-director reveals that they have already pinned Top Gun 3‘s plot. McQuarrie shared that he already knows what the story will be about and has the “framework” done. Read what he said below:
It’s already in the bag. Yeah, I already know what it is. It wasn’t hard. I thought it would be, and that’s a good place to go from is you walk into the room going, “Come on, what are we going to do?” and Ehren Kruger pitched something and I went, “Mhm actually,” and we had one conversation about it and the framework is there. So, no, it’s not hard to crack. The truth of the matter is, none of these are hard to crack.
It’s as you start to execute it, and as you start to interrogate it, as you start [to think] why these movies are made the way they are. It’s not the action, it’s not even the level of or intensity of or the scope and scale of the action [or] the engineering around the action, it’s none of those things — it’s the emotion.
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