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Top Gun 3: Miles Teller Gives Promising Update on Tom Cruise Sequel
Actor Miles Teller gives a promising update on the status of a potential Top Gun 3 after the massive success of Top Gun: Maverick. Tom Cruise returned to play Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, a sequel 36 years in the making, which has gone on to become a box office behemoth. Teller plays Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw in the film, the son of Maverick's former rear pilot, Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (played by Anthony Edwards), who was killed in the first Top Gun.
Top Gun: Maverick has gone on to become a record-breaking success, after multiple release delays due to the pandemic. The film is now Tom Cruise's highest-grossing film ever and the highest-grossing film of 2022 so far, beating out both Marvel and DC comic book blockbusters. Naturally, that type of success leads to sequel talks, which are persisting even though Top Gun: Maverick itself took decades to come to fruition.
While talking to ET Online, Teller gave a promising update on the status of a potential Top Gun 3, saying that he's "had conversations" with Tom Cruise about it, but didn't reveal much more than that. The actor talked about the success of the recent film, making mention of how it will help "future negotiations" for his career (especially for a Top Gun 3, should that ever happen). While Teller sounds optimistic about a potential sequel, he ultimately says it's all up to Tom Cruise:
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"That would be great, but that's all up to TC. It's all up to Tom. I've been having some conversations with him about it. We'll see."
Teller also showed Cruise plenty of gratitude for being a part of the Top Gun legacy, saying, "for him to share Top Gun with me and a lot of these other young actors, to bring us into that world has just been such a wild ride and it's still going." The success of Top Gun: Maverick is indeed still flying high, with box office numbers continuing to soar, even as new big-ticket titles are added to the summer lineup. Thor: Love and Thunder will likely have a big impact with its release, but audiences are still turning out for Top Gun: Maverick, which doesn't have a streaming release date as of yet.
Although it took decades for a Top Gun sequel to happen, Hollywood will no doubt be eager to see another happen much sooner, especially with Top Gun: Maverick pulling in over $1 billion thus far. That kind of success rarely goes ignored and the pressure will be on for Tom Cruise to make a decision sooner than later as to whether the show goes on. While Maverick is now out of the Navy, there's still plenty of story left to mine, especially with Teller and the rest of the younger cast making a good enough impression to merit their return.
