Tom Cruise gives update on Top Gun: Maverick sequel
Tom Cruise has revealed he and the Top Gun: Maverick team are “thinking and talking about many different stories” for the sequel.
The 62-year-old actor is set to reprise his role as pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the upcoming follow-up to the 2022 blockbuster, and has shared he and the creative team are exploring different avenues of where to take the Top Gun story next.
During an appearance on the Today show in Australia, Cruise said: “Yeah, we’re thinking and talking about many different stories and what could we do and what’s possible.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.“It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun: Maverick, so all of these things we’re working on, we’re discussing Days Of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick.”
Top Gun: Maverick — which is the legacy sequel to 1986’s Top Gun — followed Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Cruise) as he trained the next generation of TOPGUN pilots, including Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw (Miles Teller).
As well as introducing a host of new characters, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ reunited Cruise’s ‘Maverick’ with Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, as portrayed by the late Val Kilmer — who died in April aged 65.
