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Paramount Confirms Top Gun 3 Development, Cruise Returns as Maverick

5/16/2026

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Paramount Pictures announced on April 16 at CinemaCon that Top Gun 3 is in development with a script.
Co-head Josh Greenstein confirmed Tom Cruise will reprise Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
Tom Cruise appeared in a video on the Paramount lot saying the future looks great.
Writer-producer Christopher McQuarrie said a script framework exists and the project is not hard to crack.
No release date is set, although Maverick earned over $1 billion worldwide.

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Paramount Pictures announced on April 16 at CinemaCon that Top Gun 3 is in development with a script.
Co-head Josh Greenstein confirmed Tom Cruise will reprise Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.
Tom Cruise appeared in a video on the Paramount lot saying the future looks great.
Writer-producer Christopher McQuarrie said a script framework exists and the project is not hard to crack.
No release date is set, although Maverick earned over $1 billion worldwide.