The third High Gun film is an enormous precedence for Skydance Media following the studio’s buy of Paramount World.
After Skydance acquired Paramount final Thursday (07.08.25) for $8 billion, the destiny of the studio’s present initiatives had been known as into query, although Skydance CEO David Ellison has harassed that each the High Gun: Maverick sequel and Star Trek stay a prime precedence for the corporate.
Ellison stated: “One in all our greatest priorities is definitely restoring Paramount because the No. 1 vacation spot for essentially the most proficient artists and filmmakers on the planet.
“Very merely, nice filmmakers make nice motion pictures.”
Ellison’s Skydance deputy Dana Goldberg additionally praised Tom Cruise, 63, for his work on Paramount initiatives like High Gun and the Mission: Inconceivable franchise.
She stated: “It was to thank him for, frankly, the large piece he’s been in Paramount’s historical past, Paramount’s current and the way essential he’s for Paramount’s future.
“High Gun 3 is a large precedence for us.”
High Gun: Maverick – which is the legacy sequel to 1986’s High Gun – stars Cruise as naval captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell as he returns to the Navy’s elite flight faculty to coach a brand new technology of aviators, confronting his previous whereas main them on a harmful mission.
Not too long ago, director Joseph Kosinski teased the third High Gun movie can be “a lot greater” than 2022’s High Gun: Maverick.
The F1 filmmaker instructed GQ: “I believe we have discovered a approach to do it, not solely within the scale of what we’re proposing, however the thought itself of the story we’re telling.
“We’re considering a lot greater than … It is a actually existential disaster that Maverick has on this, and it is a lot greater than himself.
“It really … I am attempting to explain it with out giving something away. It is an existential query that Maverick has to take care of, that may make Maverick really feel small, I believe, as a film, in comparison with what we’re speaking about.”
By the conclusion of High Gun: Maverick, the naval captain passes the torch to the following technology of pilots, together with Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin (Glen Powell) and Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd (Lewis Pullman), although Kosinski teased there was “nonetheless extra story to inform” about Cruise’s character.
The director stated: “Yeah, there’s nonetheless extra story to inform for him. There’s one final journey. So we’re engaged on it now.
“Ehren Kruger, who wrote F1, is writing the script. Like all issues, it takes some time to work issues out, and we’ll solely do it if we really feel like we have a powerful sufficient story.”
Producer Christopher McQuarrie beforehand stated the plot for the High Gun: Maverick sequel was “already within the bag”.
Throughout an look on the Glad Unhappy Confused podcast, the Mission: Inconceivable – The Closing Reckoning director stated: “It wasn’t onerous. I assumed it might be, and that’s a great place to go from is you stroll into the room going, ‘Come on, what are we going to do?’ and Ehren Kruger pitched one thing, and I went, ‘Mhm really.’
“And we had one dialog about it and the framework is there. So, no, it’s not onerous to crack. The reality of the matter is, none of those are onerous to crack.”