Christopher McQuarrie Says He’s Cracked the Story for ‘Top Gun 3’

Christopher McQuarrie offers an replace on High Gun 3.

McQuarrie, who was a writer-producer on 2022’s High Gun: Maverick, was a visitor on the latest episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, posted on Monday, the place he instructed Josh Horowitz that he already has the concepts set for the third installment.

“Is High Gun 3 more durable to crack in some methods than High Gun: Maverick?,” Horowitz requested, to which McQuarrie responded, saying, “No, it’s already within the bag.”

Horowitz adopted up by asking, “You’ve cracked it?” And the Mission: Unimaginable — The Closing Reckoning director stated, “Yeah, I already know what it’s.”

“It wasn’t laborious. I believed it will be, and that’s a great place to go from is you stroll into the room going, ‘Come on, what are we going to do?’ and Ehren Kruger pitched one thing and I went, ‘Mhm truly,’ and we had one dialog about it and the framework is there,” McQuarrie explains. “So, no, it’s not
laborious to crack. The reality of the matter is, none of those are laborious to crack.”

He continued, “It’s as you begin to execute it, and as you begin to interrogate it, as you begin [to think] why these motion pictures are made the way in which they’re. It’s not the motion, it’s not even the extent of or depth of or the scope and scale of the motion [or] the engineering across the motion, it’s none of these issues — it’s the emotion.”

Horowitz famous that what he remembers from the movie (one of many many issues) is in the intervening time finish between Tom Cruise‘s Maverick and Miles Teller’s Rooster. By the tip of High Gun: Maverick, the characters reconcile after Rooster resents Maverick as a result of he blames him for his father, Gooses’ demise within the unique ’86 film.

McQuarrie stated that the movie is all about “attending to that place” and “discovering the proper emotional stability,” which is what he and Cruise have been targeted on, ensuring audiences “really feel affinity” for Rooster.

Information of one other High Gun movie got here in Jan. 2024, when it was introduced that High Gun 3 was within the works at Paramount. The Hollywood Reporter reported that High Gun: Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger could be penning the script and sources stated Joe Kosinski would direct once more. It’s additionally supposed that Teller and Glen Powell will return.

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