Top Gun: Maverick took everyone by surprise when it arrived more than three decades after the original. More than being a satisfying legasequel pairing star Tom Cruise with a new class of rising stars, including Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, and Lewis Pullman, it was also a top-notch action flick. All the acclaim managed to revive the franchise, with Paramount announcing a sequel in early 2024. But with sequel confirmation coming two years after Maverick’s release, and not a peep out of Cruise in the meantime, the timeline for Top Gun 3 is starting to look concerning. Will we have to wait another 36 years?
Monica Barbaro, who played one of the leading Top Gun students taught by Cruise to pull off an impossible, top-secret mission, gave Inverse a promising update. Barbaro reveals the cast has been talking about doing a sequel since they shot Maverick, and that they’re all on board whenever the movie’s script is completed.
