4 min readKochiApr 17, 2026 01:32 PM IST In what can be described as the biggest film announcement of the year, production giant Paramount Pictures has confirmed that a third Top Gun movie is officially in the making. At CinemaCon 2026 in Las Vegas, Paramount’s co-head Josh Greenstein announced that scripting for Top Gun 3 is currently underway, marking the return of Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell yet again. This will be a direct follow-up to director Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which was a sequel to Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986). However, Greenstein did not reveal whether Kosinski would return as the director this time. Check out | Avengers Doomsday trailer: Captain America and Thor go up against ‘wildly epic’ Doctor Doom ‘Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer reuniting’ “Top Gun 3 is officially in development with a script well underway, reuniting Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer (co-producer of both the Top Gun movies),” The Hollywood Reporter quoted Greenstein as saying at CinemaCon 2026. Although reports of a potential Part 3 …