F1 director teases Top Gun 3 particulars, reveals Tom Cruise’s future within the franchise: Theres one final experience

In a brand new interview with GQ, Kosinski confirmed that Top Gun 3 could be very a lot in improvement, and it guarantees to go deeper than ever earlier than. “I feel we have discovered a approach to do it,” he mentioned. “Not solely within the scale of what we’re proposing, however the concept itself of the story we’re telling. We’re pondering a lot greater… it’s a extremely existential disaster that Maverick has on this.” Without revealing an excessive amount of, Kosinski teased that this subsequent instalment received’t simply be about aerial stunts or adrenaline-pumping flight scenes. “It’s an existential query that Maverick has to cope with, that might make Maverick really feel small, I feel, as a film, in comparison with what we’re speaking about.”

And whereas many assumed Top Gun: Maverick was a baton-passing second, Kosinski insists there’s extra story left for Cruise’s iconic character. “Yeah, there’s nonetheless extra story to inform for him. There’s one final experience. So we’re engaged on it now,” he mentioned, confirming that F1 screenwriter Ehren Kruger is penning the script.

But that’s not all Kosinski is dreaming up. When requested if he’d wish to unite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in a single film once more, the director didn’t miss a beat. “Right now, it might be Cole Trickle [Cruise’s 1990 character from Days of Thunder]. We discover out that he and Sonny Hayes [Pitt’s character in F1] have a previous. They had been rivals in some unspecified time in the future, perhaps crossed paths…” Kosinski even referenced an outdated rumour8 a few go-kart battle between Cruise and Pitt on the Interview with the Vampire set, earlier than grinning: “Who wouldn’t pay to see these two go head-to-head on the monitor?”