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Top Gun 3

Little details are known yet, but Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell confirmed that Top Gun 3 is in the works.

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Glen Powell's Hangman smiles while sitting in class in Top Gun Maverick
Top Gun 3 Keeping The Franchise's Most Impressive Box Office Streak Alive Won't Be Easy

Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick managed to set a franchise box office record that Top Gun 3 will have a hard time maintaining no matter when it arrives.

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Top Gun 3 Sounds Exciting, But It’s Not The Tom Cruise Sequel I Want To See The Most

As exciting as Tom Cruise's return as Maverick in Top Gun 3 may seem, I would prefer seeing him reprise another role in a different movie sequel.

Glen Powell smiling as Hangman next to Tom Cruise as Maverick with a flight suit and helmet on in Top Gun: Maverick
Bear With Me, But Top Gun 3 Would Be Better Off Without Glen Powell

Glen Powell is a rising star in Hollywood, but I think Top Gun 3 - and Powell's career - would both be better without Hangman in the film.

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Glen Powell’s Amazing 2024 Complicates Top Gun 3 After Maverick's Tom Cruise Replacement Setup

Glen Powell's amazing 2024 is great news for the star, but may complicate Top Gun 3's plans for the franchise's future hero after Top Gun: Maverick.

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Top Gun 3 Is Way More Exciting After Twisters' $124M Success - And Not Just Because Of Glen Powell

Glen Powell's role in Twisters and a surprising behind-the-scenes creator make the movie's success even better for the sequel Top Gun 3.

Glen Powell as Hangman and Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun: Maverick
I'm Relieved Top Gun 3 Has Finally Decided On One Detail Guaranteeing That It Will Release Sooner

Top Gun 3 still faces a lot of uncertainties despite interest in it. Luckily, however, one confirmed detail ensures that it will eventually come out.

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The Perfect Movie To Watch While Waiting For Top Gun 3 Just Got A Thrilling First Trailer

Brad Pitt's new movie F1 finally has a trailer, and the Formula 1 movie looks like a perfect fit for viewers eagerly awaiting Top Gun 3's arrival.

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Val Kilmer's Iceman in a Navy portrait from Top Gun Maverick
Tom Cruise's Best Top Gun 3 Role Is Almost Impossible After Iceman's Death

Top Gun 3 can no longer tell Iceman and Maverick's best story thanks to Top Gun: Maverick's big death, but there's still hope for the sequel's plot.

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Top Gun 3 Needs To Use The Maverick and Rooster Story That Top Gun 2 Weirdly Ignored

Top Gun 3 needs to address a connection between Rooster and Maverick that Tom Cruise's character somehow never acknowledged in Top Gun: Maverick.

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I'm Concerned About Top Gun 3's Release Chances After Tom Cruise's Successors' New Updates

Tom Cruise remains the primary star of Top Gun 3, but new updates about his successors may have just made the threequel's release more complicated.

Tom Cruise as Pete Mitchell gazing upward with a stunned expression in Top Gun Maverick
Top Gun 3's Best Story Would Mean Abandoning The Franchise's Original Premise

Top Gun: Maverick already set up Top Gun 3's best story, but the sequel needs to abandon the franchise's original premise to follow this plot.

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Glen Powell's New Amazon Movie Is Great For Top Gun 3

Glen Powell has been on a hot streak since the release of Top Gun 2 but he has also quietly continued his collaboration with U.S. Navy-inspired films.

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How Glen Powell Is Approaching Top Gun 3 Differently After Real-Life Blue Angels Experience

Exclusive: Glen Powell explains how his experience with the Blue Angels flying group will affect how he approaches his return as Hangman in Top Gun 3.

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Glen Powell as Hangman looks on blankly in a scene from Top Gun: Maverick.
Top Gun 3’s Breakout Star Creates A Challenge For The Franchise's Future

Although Top Gun 3 will benefit from Glen Powell's rising profile, the Top Gun: Maverick sequel will also struggle with Hangman's story as a result.

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Custom image of Jon Hamm as Cyclone in Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun 3's Potential Cyclone Return Gets Confident Response From Jon Hamm (With 1 Caveat)

Exclusive: Top Gun 3's potential Beau Cyclone Simpson return gets a confident response from Jon Hamm, who mentions one important caveat.

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Top Gun 3’s Character Return Fixes Top Gun: Maverick’s Tragic Twist

The news that 1 of Top Gun: Maverick's ing stars is happy to return for Top Gun 3 allows the series to perfectly end part of Maverick's story.

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Top Gun Maverick Glen Powell
This Glen Powell Movie Will Be A Must Watch While Waiting For Top Gun 3

Glen Powell was Top Gun: Maverick's breakout star, with a surpricoming project giving him the chance to continue his new career trend.

Tom Cruise's Maverick over a split image of Lewis Pullman's Bob and Monica Barbaro's Phoenix from Top Gun Maverick
One Top Gun: Maverick Deleted Scene Makes Top Gun 3’s Story Harder

Top Gun 3 will have a harder time getting viewers to care about two ing stars thanks to Top Gun: Maverick cutting a pivotal scene they shared.

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Top Gun 3's Biggest Maverick Twist Would Avoid Tom Cruise's $4 Billion Franchise Curse

Top Gun 3 could use a shocking Maverick twist to pull off something that even Tom Cruise's most successful franchise has never been able to do.

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Top Gun 3 Has 1 Major Difference To Top Gun: Maverick That Means We Shouldn't Have To Wait Another 36 Years

While Top Gun 3 is still far from hitting theaters, it's already very different from the hugely successful Top Gun: Maverick in one major way.