Jerry Bruckheimer teases “terrific” follow-up to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has teased a “terrific” follow-up to ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 80-year-old industry legend revealed that a story has been written for the third movie in the action franchise, and says it is now a case of getting Tom Cruise and the other cast members on board.

“I think we have a terrific story. It’s just (a question of) how do we get everybody together and how do we get it done,” he said.

“Tom’s very busy. He’s got a lot of movies lined up, and he’s a very in-demand actor. So we’ll have to get a good screenplay, and hopefully, he’ll like it as much as we will.”

Reports about Top Gun 3‘s development emerged earlier this year, and Glen Powell – who starred in Top Gun: Maverick as Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin – seemingly confirmed the news when he stated that some “fun stuff” was happening in regards to the third film.

Speaking to Variety about the rumoured threequel, he said: “People looked at me like I knew what was going on.

“There is going to be some fun stuff being announced soon…but it was confidential to me. I talk to [Joseph] Kosinski, Cruise and Jerry [Bruckheimer] all the time. There is stuff happening and it sounds very exciting. I don’t know when I’ll be going back…I’m sure there is a jet waiting for me sometime in the future.”

Elsewhere, Bruckheimer has also produced the new movie Young Woman and the Sea, which stars Daisy Ridley as Gertrude Ederle, the trailblazing American who became the first woman to swim the English Channel.

Praising the commitment of the cast and crew, Bruckheimer explained: “Daisy got in the water, and she trained with these Olympians for almost four months. So you’ve got to hand it to her. She filmed in freezing water for 10 to 12 hours a day, for weeks at a time. It was really an ordeal, and she waited to make this movie. She loved this character so much, as

The producer added: “A lot of the crew members also waited. When they all read the script, they said, ‘I’m not taking any other work till you get this going’, and we were lucky that we got it going pretty quick once we got to that phase.”

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