Top Gun 3 has reportedly made some headway, with filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie revealing that he has already nailed down the storyline for the sequel.
McQuarrie, who helmed the recent blockbuster Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, alongside writing and co-producing 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, spoke on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he explained that coming up with the plot for the sequel was easier than expected.
When asked if Top Gun 3’s story was “harder to crack” than its predecessor, McQuarrie revealed that it was “already in the bag,” adding that he already knows what the story is. “It wasn’t hard,” he explained, “I thought it would be, and that’s a good place to go from as 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,” he added, “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.”
When asked if he would step into a director role for the sequel, taking over from Top Gun: Maverick helmer Joseph Kosinski, McQuarrie replied that he had given the prospect “absolutely no thought whatsoever”, although he did admit to doing a lot of research on Tony Scott’s movies, the late film director who helmed the original 1986 movie Top Gun.
This isn’t the first time the Top Gun threequel has been teased by those working on the project either, as franchise icon Tom Cruise, who played Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in both films, previously said that he was actively working on not only Top Gun 3, but a potential sequel to 1990’s Days of Thunder too.
“Yeah, we’re thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what’s possible,” Cruise said during an interview with the Today Show Australia, “It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick, so all of these things we’re working on, we’re discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick.”
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