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Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of the much-anticipated Top Gun 3 film for Paramount, has revealed further details about the status of the project.
Bruckheimer recently told attendees at TheGrill 2025 conference that screenwriter Ehren Kruger would likely complete another draft of the script within a month. Kruger and Christopher McQuarrie co-wrote the script for the wildly successful Top Gun: Maverick movie, which grossed more than $1.4 billion at the global box office. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, that film was released in 2022 and received six Academy Award nominations, capturing the one for Best Sound.
Kosinski is also expected to direct Top Gun 3, which will again star Tom Cruise reprising his role as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. The supporting cast will likely include Miles Teller and Glen Powell, who played Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw and Jake “Hangman” Seresin in Top Gun: Maverick.
In May of this year, Maverick co-writer Christopher McQuarrie told reporters that he and Kruger had together “cracked the story” for the upcoming Top Gun film. He was quoted as saying that “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.”
No release date for Top Gun 3 has been announced, but it’s expected to appear in 2028 at the earliest, given the fact that Kosinski will be busy next year directing a reboot of Miami Vice, which is scheduled for release in early August of 2027.
Starring Tom Cruise, the original Top Gun movie appeared in 1986. It was directed by Tony Scott and produced by Bruckheimer in tandem with Don Simpson. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr. Despite initially receiving mixed reviews, Top Gun became the highest-grossing domestic film that year, grossing more than $357 million worldwide against a production budget of just $15 million.