Top Gun Maverick: Tom Cruise plays coy over future of franchise as sequel comes out 36 years after original

Greater than three many years after Prime Gun took audiences’ breath away, the discharge of the sequel – Prime Gun: Maverick – has led followers to query if extra instalments could possibly be on the way in which in future.

The brand new movie sees Tom Cruise return to the air, reprising his position as pilot Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell as he’s tasked with instructing a gaggle of Prime Gun graduates the ropes.

With Maverick nonetheless proving he’s the most effective there may be and a brand new cohort of budding pilots prepared for motion, might this imply that the story will proceed?

On Thursday night, spoke to Tom on the London premiere of the movie – which was attended by Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – to ask him that very query.

When probed on whether or not there shall be extra films within the franchise and in that case, whether or not Maverick would return or cross the baton onto the youthful era, the 59-year-old saved his playing cards near his chest.

‘I believe tonight I’m simply going to get pleasure from this night, proper right here. It’s been 36 years because the final one and we’ve all labored so laborious. It’s such a beautiful night,’ he mentioned, beaming as he made his approach down the crimson carpet in Leicester Sq..

Tom Cruise at Top Gun: Maverick premiere
The star was all smiles because the blockbuster made its option to London (Image: Metro.co.uk)

‘To lastly have it open and see individuals, how a lot they’re having fun with it, and I don’t know… every thing that everybody’s been by means of, to have the ability to look out and see everybody’s dressed to the nines… it’s an attractive night.’

Govt producer Christopher McQuarrie, who’s labored with Tom on a number of events on films together with Jack Reacher, the Mission Inconceivable franchise and Fringe of Tomorrow, shared with when the Prime Gun: Maverick creators knew the movie was every thing they’d hoped.

‘I might say I knew we had one thing the primary time we examined the film,’ he mentioned on the UK premiere.

‘It was a really tough kind, the music wasn’t completed, the sound design wasn’t completed, Woman Gaga’s tune wasn’t in it. And there was spontaneous applause. That’s after I knew we had one thing particular.’

Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick
The movie has been 36 years within the making (Image: Paramount Footage by way of AP)

Tom Cruise in Top Gun
All these years later, Maverick nonetheless is aware of methods to rule the skies (Image: Paramount/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

He added that regardless of being a longtime collaborator of the Hollywood star, Tom nonetheless had the flexibility to take him unexpectedly on set.

‘There’s at all times a shock, there’s at all times a degree you didn’t anticipate. There’s a selection you weren’t planning for,’ he acknowledged.

‘I’ll assume I’ll know precisely what Tom’s going to do after I convey him one thing, and he always surprises me or seems at it with a special perspective. That’s any day on the job with Tom.’

Prime Gun: Maverick introduces viewers to a number of new solid members, together with Miles Teller as Lieutenant Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s late greatest good friend Goose.

Jon Hamm is launched as Vice Admiral Beau ‘Cyclone’ Simpson, whereas Val Kilmer makes his highly-anticipated return as Admiral Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky, Maverick’s former rival and shut good friend.

Prime Gun: Maverick was initially slated for a 2019 launch, however it was delayed first to permit extra time to work on flight sequences, after which subequently because of the pandemic and scheduling conflicts.

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