Miles Teller Has Spoken With Tom Cruise About Top Gun 3

Actor Miles Teller, who plays pilot Lt. Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick, has reportedly already spoken repeatedly with Tom Cruise about making the growing franchise into a proper trilogy. According to Entertainment Tonight, the ball is in Cruise's court.

"It's all up to Tom," said Teller. "I've been having some conversations with him about it… that would be great, but that's all up to TC. For him to share Top Gun with me and a lot of these other young actors it's just been such a wild ride, and it's still going."

Teller further added that working on Top Gun: Maverick was "awesome." And while Top Gun: Maverick has been a thrilling experience for audiences and its actors alike--and recently in the pandemic era became Cruise's first $1 billion-grossing movie at the global box office--not everyone has been a fan. In a recent interview, actor Mickey Rourke--Cruise's '80s contemporary--slammed the film as "irrelevant" and said Cruise has "been doing the same f***ing part for 35 years."

Paramount has not announced any sequel to Top Gun: Maverick, though given its success it's no surprise rumors have been persisting since its stateside release in May. Cruise's next major films on the horizon are the two-part Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning sequels, slated to arrive in 2023 and 2024.

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