The writer and producer of 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, Christopher McQuarrie, spoke about his hopes for a third installment of the film franchise in a recent podcast
Christopher McQuarrie has a plot for Top Gun 3 “already in the bag”.
The writer and producer of 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick said it “wasn’t hard” to come up with a story for a threequel to the hugely popular action-adventure franchise, which follows fighter pilot Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise, 62.
Speaking to YouTuber Josh Horowitz on the latest episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Josh asked Christopher, 56: “Is Top Gun 3 harder to crack in some ways than Top Gun: Maverick?” To which he replied: “No, it’s already in the bag.” Following up on the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning director’s answer, he then said: “You’ve cracked it?”
Confirming that an idea for Top Gun 3 was nailed, Christopher added: “Yeah, I already know what it is.”
The filmmaker then went on to explain how F1 screenwriter Ehren Kruger, 52, suggested an idea for the upcoming third instalment to the Top Gun series, of which a release year has not been announced, and it ticked the “framework” boxes.
Christopher said: “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.”
Elsewhere, in what can only be seen as good news for another Top Gun at some point, acting royalty Cruise recently made a wild vow to his fans.
Following the release of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, he revealed that he doesn’t have any intention of ever retiring from the film business.
The star, who has previously said he wanted to keep making films into his 80s like his inspiration Harrison Ford, told The Hollywood Reporter: “I’m going to make them into my 100s.
“I will never stop. I will never stop doing action, I will never stop doing drama, comedy films, I’m excited!”
Recalling his “exceptional” experience of making the films, Cruise said: “There’s been so many levels of reward with the filmmakers that I’ve collaborated with, the crews, the people, the cultures that we’ve worked in.”
“Everything that I’ve learned and continue to learn about storytelling, about life, about leadership, about character and every aspect of filmmaking. It’s been exceptional, it really is exceptional.”
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