Jerry Bruckheimer assures the speed freaks that more Top Gun is coming

At its present rate (and not counting its several thousand years of pre-Top Gun society, which barely even rate as “civilization” in the first place, if you ask us) humanity is producing a new Top Gun movie once every 36 years. That’s not exactly a “need for speed” type situation, but rest assured, Danger Zone enthusiasts: Jerry Bruckheimer has plans cooking to get you more of the “planes go fast” action that you crave.

This is per THR, which reports that Bruckheimer—currently in the midst of promoting Young Woman And The Sea, which is slightly less of a white-knuckle explosion of cinematic jet fuel—was also talking up a potential sequel to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, which has a story treatment, and is now only lacking two teensy additional components: An actual script, and a block of time on star Tom Cruise’s extremely busy schedule.

“I think we have a terrific story,” Bruckheimer asserted. “It’s just [a question of] how do we get everybody together and how do we get it done. Tom’s very busy. He’s got a lot of movies lined up, and he’s a very in-demand actor. So we’ll have to get a good screenplay, and hopefully, he’ll like it as much as we will.” (Bruckheimer didn’t mention it, but he’s presumably also waiting for Maverick director Joseph Kosinski’s schedule to clear up; he’s currently working on a still-untitled Formula One movie with Brad Pitt, also for Bruckheimer.)

Two years on, it’s still easy to see how big a movie the Top Gun sequel was for Bruckheimer: Although he still has an extremely prolific hand in TV, where he continues to produce various versions of The Amazing Race and the blossoming Fire Country franchise, the revival sequel was his first bona fide blockbuster in more than a decade, ultimately bringing in nearly $1.5 billion at the box office.