Tom Cruise Drops BIG Hint About Top Gun: Maverick Sequel, Says 'Thinking And Talking'

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Last Updated:May 15, 2025, 16:16 IST

Tom Cruise is presently gearing up for the merchandise of Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning, which volition merchandise successful India connected Saturday, May 17.

Tom Cruise volition reprise his relation arsenic aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell successful the upcoming follow-up to the 2022 blockbuster. (Photo: Bang Showbiz)

Tom Cruise has revealed helium and the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ squad are “thinking and talking astir galore antithetic stories" for the sequel. The 62-year-old histrion is acceptable to reprise his relation arsenic aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell successful the upcoming follow-up to the 2022 blockbuster and has present shared helium and the originative squad are presently exploring antithetic avenues of wherever to instrumentality the ‘Top Gun’ communicative next.

During an quality connected the Australian ‘Today’ show, Cruise said: “Yeah, we’re reasoning and talking astir galore antithetic stories and what could we bash and what’s possible. It took maine 35 years to fig retired ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, truthful each of these things we’re moving on, we’re discussing ‘Days of Thunder’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’."

The ‘Mission: Impossible’ prima added helium was moving connected “numerous different films" astatine the moment, including Alejandro Iñárritu’s archetypal English connection movie since 2015’s ‘The Revenant’, and different projects with his ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ manager Christopher McQuarrie.

He said: “There’s galore different films that we’re actively moving connected close now. I’m ever shooting a film, prepping a film, posting a film. I conscionable finished a movie with Alejandro Iñárritu too, who did ‘The Revenant’, that was an bonzer acquisition and [Christopher McQuarrie] and I are ever moving connected respective antithetic films."

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ – which is the bequest sequel to 1986’s ‘Top Gun’ – followed Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Cruise) arsenic helium trained the adjacent procreation of TOPGUN pilots, including Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw (Miles Teller) Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin (Glen Powell) and Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd (Lewis Pullman).

As good arsenic introducing a big of caller characters, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ reunited Cruise’s ‘Maverick’ with Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky, arsenic portrayed by the precocious Val Kilmer – who passed distant past period astatine the property of 65 from complications related to pneumonia pursuing a agelong play of sick wellness – which Cruise described arsenic a “very special" moment.

Speaking with Sight and Sound magazine, the ‘Jack Reacher’ prima said: “To travel backmost each those years later, and it was astonishing being connected acceptable for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ due to the fact that it was similar clip had not passed. We were laughing and it was joyous. “And past we started acting and it’s just, you spot it … helium became ‘Iceman’. The powerfulness that this feline has, adjacent not saying anything, to go that character. You spot however adjacent the sniff that helium gave. He was ‘Iceman’. And you saw the dynamic betwixt these friends. It was precise special, to accidental the least, for maine personally.

“I conscionable archer radical … you instrumentality Iceman from the archetypal movie and you look astatine it here, that full journey, helium became ‘Iceman’. And helium didn’t adjacent person to speak. That’s what he’s capable to do. Beautiful, truly beautiful. A acquisition that helium had and that helium shared with each of us."

Even so, Kilmer had initially rejected the relation of ‘Iceman’ successful the archetypal ‘Top Gun’.

Cruise explained: “I felt truthful grateful that helium decided to marque the film. We did a batch to get him successful the movie. Originally, helium conscionable didn’t privation to marque the movie, ‘I don’t privation to beryllium a supporting, I privation to prima successful films.’ “I was calling his agent, and Tony Scott was hunting him down and gathering successful an elevator with Val, and helium was like, ‘Please, Val, please.’ You conscionable spot what a large actor, charismatic feline helium was. And successful that scene, what I emotion astir what helium did and however helium played it, helium conscionable knew that code to hit."

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