Despite the recent agreement of Tom Cruise with Warner Bros. earlier in the week, the famous actor will continue working with Paramount as the third installment of top gun is in development, with co-writer of the sequel ”Top Gun: Maverick”, Ehren Krugerwho is currently writing a draft.
The project would bring together Tom Cruise with the actors of the second film, Miles Teller and Glen Powellas well as with the producers Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison. Joseph Kosinski would return to direct or produce the film.
At the moment, Cruise is filming Mission: Impossible 8 for Paramount. He is also working on Universal’s film about the actor’s outer space with the POT. Doug Liman is in charge of directing it.
The success of ”Top Gun: Maverick”
The sequel to ”Top Gun” (1986) was a total success in movie theaters around the world. So much so that it is the highest-grossing film in the history of Tom Cruise, raising $1.49 billion. It was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture where it won for Best Sound.
Additionally, the film became the second highest-grossing feature film of 2022.
Tom Cruise’s deal with Warner Bros.
Last February, David Zaslav went to the offices of the CAA agency, accompanied by the heads of his film studio, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy. The delegation met at Agent Maha Dakhil’s office, where Kevin Huvane and Joel Lubin attended. There was also a valued client: Tom Cruise. The CAA meeting lasted two hours. Cruise is a true veteran when it comes to dealing with Hollywood executives, and he and Zaslav immediately understood the importance of keeping movie theaters and movie theaters alive. When the meeting ended, it was clear that an agreement was going to be reached.
It is notable that paramountwhich then spent hundreds of millions on two Mission: Impossible installments, never participated in the discussion. Cruise does not have any type of formal agreement with the studiobut has had a long relationship there through multiple executive regimes. Five of his last seven films were for Paramount.
Sources say that Cruise was unhappy with the way Paramount treated him on a number of issues. He had filed as a lawyer in 2021, when the studio announced that Top Gun: Maverick would have a theatrical run of only 45 days (which ultimately did not happen). The studio also pressured Cruise to approve making a television show based on Mission: Impossible (1996) or Days of Thunder (1990) for its streamer.
At 61 years old, Cruise He remains a great international movie star, one of the ”last of that kind”. “He probably has another 10 or 20 years left, maybe not hanging from buildings, but as a movie star,” says an executive who has worked with the star. Cruise seems to think she can still hang herself from any building he chooses. Instead of remaking films like Born on the Fourth of July or Lions for Lambs, studio sources say that Cruise intends to launch another big franchise. Sources say the deal with Warner includes the green light for a yet-to-be-identified project, perhaps a thriller or action film.
Cruise’s new deal with Warner will not produce anything starring him in the short termsince the star will be working on the next and possibly last, ”Mission: Impossible” until May 2025. And the deal doesn’t actually require Cruise to do anything for the studio.
Source: Ambito
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