- Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie confirms Top Gun 3's plot is set.
- McQuarrie states that developing the sequel was not a difficult process.
- He mentioned a discussion with Ehren Kruger led to the story framework.
Filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie, a frequent collaborator of action star Tom Cruise, says the plot for the next Top Gun movie is already in the bag. McQuarrie, whose recent directorial is Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning starring Cruise, was asked if the plot for Top Gun 3 was harder to crack compared to the previous instalment, which he denied.
"No, it's already in the bag. I already know what it is. It wasn't hard," he said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
"I thought it would be, and that's a good place to go from as you walk into the room going, ‘Come on, what are we going to do?' And Ehren Kruger pitched something and I went, ‘Mhm actually', and we had one conversation about it and the framework is there. So, no, it's not hard to crack. The truth of the matter is, none of these are hard to crack," he added.
The first Top Gun film released in 1986 and was directed by Tony Scott. The next instalment, titled Top Gun: Maverick, came out in 2022 and was directed by Joseph Kosinski.
McQuarrie served as the co-writer and a producer in the second film. Both instalments had Cruise in the lead.
"It's as you start to execute it, and as you start to interrogate it, as you start [to think] why these movies are made the way they are. It's not the action, it's not even the level of or intensity of or the scope and scale of the action (or) the engineering around the action, it's none of those things, it's the emotion," McQuarrie concluded.
Earlier this month, Cruise shared that the makers are discussing about the sequels for his films Days of Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick.
McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is the eighth instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise and released in Indian theatres on May 17, 2025. It also featured Hayley Atwell and Pom Klementieff alongside Cruise.
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