Glen Powell gave an update on “Top Gun 3” during a live interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast alongside his “Twisters” co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones. The actors were asked which project would come first: a sequel to “Normal People” with Edgar-Jones or “Top Gun 3” with Powell? The answer was the latter.
“I mean, I have a specific date,” Powell said, more or less confirming that a start date has been set for “Top Gun 3.” Whether that means a date for him to get back in the gym, go back to flight school, or actually start filming remains to be seen. Asked if there were any other details about “Top Gun 3” he could share, Powell replied, “Absolutely not.”
News broke in January, before Powell appeared at the Sundance Film Festival to screen “Hit Man,” that Paramount Pictures was officially developing a third “Top Gun” film. The plan was for Powell to reunite with his “Top Gun: Maverick” co-stars Tom Cruise and Miles Teller. Powell told diverse At the Sundance Film Festival, he said that when news of the third film's development spread online, he started receiving a lot of text messages with question marks.
“People looked at me like I knew what was going on: There’s going to be some fun stuff coming out soon… but it was a secret to me,” Powell said before introducing a trailer for “Top Gun 3.” [Joseph] Kosinski, Cruz and Jerry [Bruckheimer] “I live in this place all the time. There are things happening that seem very exciting. I don’t know when I’ll be back… I’m sure there’s a plane waiting for me sometime in the future.”
Powell played Jake “Hangman” Seresin in “Top Gun: Maverick,” which hit theaters in May 2022 and grossed $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office, becoming the 11th-highest-grossing film of all time that summer. “Maverick” is currently the 13th-highest-grossing film.
like diverse “Paramount has hired Top Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger to write a script for a sequel to the blockbuster action film, according to a source familiar with the matter. The studio hopes to bring Top Gun: Maverick to production in 2021,” it was reported in January. Director Joseph Kosinski will be back in the cockpit for another installment in the franchise, which will likely see his younger co-stars Miles Teller and Glen Powell return for more high-octane action. Discussions on the new script began late last year. There are still a few hurdles to overcome, as Cruise and his company have yet to approve the final version.
“Top Gun: Maverick” remains Cruise's biggest film to date. Powell, on the other hand, has maintained his box office fortune thanks to hits like the romantic comedy “Anyone But You” and the disaster film “Twisters,” which opened at the domestic box office with $81.5 million.
