Top Gun 3 Update Avoids One Of Hollywood's Most Cynical Sequel Trends
WARNING: Minor spoilers ahead for Top Gun: Maverick!
While Top Gun: Maverick debuted as a massive success, producer Jerry Bruckheimer's response to Top Gun 3 is a refreshing take on Hollywood’s sequel trends. Top Gun: Maverick is the highest-grossing movie of 2022 outside of the superhero genre, with the sequel continuing to soar at the box office. Not only has it broken box office records for Tom Cruise openings and recorded the lowest second-weekend drop of any $100 million premieres, but Top Gun 2 also debuted to overwhelmingly positive reviews, thus keeping the summer blockbuster alive and well.
After 36 years, Paramount revived 1986’s Top Gun with its 2022 legacy sequel, bringing back Tom Cruise as the charismatic and reckless aviator Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. While training a new group of TOPGUN graduates for a high-stakes mission, Maverick is confronted with his own mortality, grief over his former comrades, and the responsibility of passing on his legacy to a younger generation of pilots, including Rooster, the son of his late best friend, Goose. The heartwarming ending of Top Gun 2 seems to create closure for Maverick’s story but has also sparked conversations about a follow-up with Top Gun 3.
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With a significant influx of legacy sequels in recent years, Hollywood has developed a cynical trend in which studios greenlight subsequent installments far too soon. When asked about the possibility of Top Gun 3, producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed that there are no immediate plans to continue the franchise — but hasn’t ruled anything out. Rather than jumping on the hype train to maintain interest by quickly developing a sequel, Paramount is waiting to move forward with Top
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