Even although Tom Cruise inked a non-exclusive pact at Warner Bros earlier this week, it seems like he’ll proceed to be busy with Paramount for a while. Reports tonight are that Top Gun 3 is in improvement at Paramount with Top Gun:Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger presently writing a draft.
The phrase is that the undertaking would reunite Cruise with Maverick‘s Miles Teller and Glen Powell in addition to producers Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison. Joe Kosinski, will reportedly both direct or produce.
Cruise is presently capturing Mission: Impossible 8 for Paramount. Also brewing over at Universal is the actor’s outer area film with Nasa. Doug Liman is directing that.
Puck had the information about Top Gun 3 tonight, they usually’re speculating that it could possibly be the 3x Oscar nominee’s potential subsequent undertaking after Mission: Impossible 8. Even with out Top Gun 3, it is going to be a problem for Cruise to get something off the bottom at Warners for a few years.
Top Gun: Maverick is the very best grossing film of Cruise’s profession at $1.49 billion. It gained one Oscar final 12 months for Best Sound and was nominated for six Academy Awards together with Best Picture.
What’s actually obtrusive in tonight’s information is that Ellison’s Skydance, which is circling to scoop up National Amusements in an all-cash bid, was a producer on Top Gun: Maverick. Deadline first instructed you that Ellison and Red Bird Capital had been kicking the tires on National Amusements. The Shari Redstone-led exhibitor controls practically 80% of Paramount shares and is the gatekeeper for any M&A deal. One of the backers of the present bid by Skydance is Ellison’s father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison per a WSJ report. Ellison co-financed Top Gun: Maverick at 25% and shared in an general internet revenue for the sequel of $391M.
Deadline reached out to Paramount for remark.
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