Ready to hop on your Kawasaki GPZ 900 Ninja to race with an F18 or F15 taking off? It’s taking off again in Miramar! The third part of “Top Gun”, with Tom Cruise in the role of pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, is officially in preparation, the Paramount Pictures studio announced Thursday at the American cinema trade show, CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
Paramount Films co-head Josh Greenstein said “Top Gun 3” is “officially in development” and its script is “well advanced.” It must be said that with the current international situation, there is plenty to draw inspiration from. And who better than the daredevil pilot with the Ray-Ban Aviator screwed on his nose to solve the problem and bring peace to the world under the star-spangled banner and Californian sunsets?
In the meantime, it’s going to be hard to wait before seeing Tom Cruise at the controls of his own P-51 Mustang in which we left him in the last sequences of the film Top Gun Maverick (2022). But Hollywood remains Hollywood. Although the 63-year-old actor was not present during the Paramount presentation, he did appear in a video broadcast at the opening of the event. We see him perched on the studio’s famous water tower in Hollywood, saying: “the future looks bright from here.” »
In the dream machine, business is never far away
The boss of Paramount Skydance, David Ellison, also took advantage of the event to announce a 45-day operating window for the group’s films before their arrival on streaming, in a context of tensions linked to its merger with Warner Bros. “Once we have merged with Warner Bros, we will produce a minimum of 30 films per year,” he promised, before launching: “long live the films. »
Paramount Skydance announced in February the acquisition of its competitor Warner Bros for $111 billion, putting an end to a long-running battle with Netflix. Hollywood fears with this buyout a drop in investment in film production, which could cause cascading effects in an industry which employs tens of thousands of people, particularly in California.
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