{"id":464887,"date":"2026-05-02T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:52:12","slug":"multiple-directors-considered-for-top-gun-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464887\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Directors Considered For &#8220;Top Gun 3&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/multiple-directors-considered-for-top-gun-3.jpg\" data-caption=\"Paramount Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/multiple-directors-considered-for-top-gun-3.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"multiple-directors-considered-for-top-gun-3\"\/><\/a>Paramount Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Jon M. Chu (\u201cWicked\u201d), Joachim R\u00f8nning (\u201cTron: Ares\u201d), and the pair of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (\u201cBad Boys: Ride or Die\u201d) are all said to be on an early consideration list to helm a third \u201cTop Gun\u201d film at Paramount Pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinsneider.com\/p\/top-gun-3-who-could-direct-tom-cruise-movie-why-christopher-mcquarrie-not-on-paramount-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The InSneider<\/a> broke the report which comes two years after the film entered development in early 2024 when writer Ehren Kruger became attached and Tom Cruise was set to return.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the biggest \tquestion mark had been over the involvement of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d director Joseph Kosinski and whether he would return.  That was answered recently with Kosinski having booked locked in \u201cMiami Vice \u201985\u201d to film as his next feature.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, a third film is now an \u201copen directing assignment\u201d and so Cruise and producer Jerry Bruckheimer are reportedly seeking a filmmaker who can gel with their vision.<\/p>\n<p>Those names appear to be the first candidates on that list \u2013 all talent that can direct a major studio project but also serve under strict creative oversight. Notably missing are some of Cruise\u2019s recent collaborators like Christopher McQuarrie and Doug Liman.<\/p>\n<p>McQuarrie is still believed to have contributed to Kruger\u2019s script.  Cruise also has his Liman-directed undersea film \u201cDeeper\u201d stalled in development and its possible that could become a bargining chip in order to commit to a third \u201cTop Gun\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/more-villains-set-for-daredevil-born-again-s3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Villains Set For \u201cDaredevil: Born Again\u201d S3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures Jon M. Chu (\u201cWicked\u201d), Joachim R\u00f8nning (\u201cTron: Ares\u201d), and the pair of Adil El Arbi and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[97273,18,117,19,17,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-464887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}