Will Tom Cruise really have time to film Top Gun 3?
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer admits it's not easy to plan a schedule with the busy star.
No time for Top Gun 3 ? Tom Cruise is a busy man, very busy. So much so that, despite the historic success of Top Gun: Maverick in 2022, making the sequel does not seem to be a priority for the star. If Paramount has already removed doubts concerning its desire to produce a new opus in the clouds, no filming date is in sight for Top Gun 3.
While Ehren Kruger works on the script, producer Jerry Bruckheimer admits to ScreenRant that he has no idea when Tom Cruise will be available to film the sequel. And there’s no question of doing this without him:
“It will be Tom Cruise, the headliner. Tom is incredible. We spent time with him. We have a history. The director, Joe Kosinski, had a wonderful story idea, and Tom told us he thought it was really good. So we develop it. We think it's going to happen, but we never know when it might happen, because Tom is so busy. He's filming Mission: Impossible 8 right now. He has another film planned after that. Hopefully we'll be able to write a script that he loves and that will motivate him, so we can get back into the air quickly.”
Because Tom Cruise will be 62 years old. And he is currently running, in Mission: Impossible 8 for the rest of Dead Reckoning. He then has to go make his film in space, not to mention his project with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the director of the Revenant. There is even talk of him appearing in Quentin Tarantino's latest film. So how do you find time to Top Gun 3 in all of that ?
