
It took over 30 years for Tom Cruise to find a way back to Top Gun — but all that effort produced Top Gun: Maverick, one of the best action sequels of all time, so fans are understandably prepared to wait a bit for a Top Gun 3, if it comes to that. Fortunately, Cruise has been open to cracking another sequel to the 1986 film as soon as possible, as are the cast of young pilots that his upstart aviator trains in Maverick.
“We’ve all been talking about the possibility of this from the moment we started filming our movie,” Monica Barbaro, who plays Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, told Inverse in 2024. “We’re all in communication. We’re all friends. I don’t have any news to report... [but] that would be a very exciting prospect.”