{"id":799331,"date":"2026-05-16T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:00:16","slug":"tom-cruise-lands-by-helicopter-in-first-public-appearance-after-top-gun-3-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799331\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Lands by Helicopter in First Public Appearance After \u201cTop Gun 3\u201d Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>Tom Cruise was spotted in London a month after Paramount confirmed Top Gun 3 is officially in development<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>Top Gun: Maverick, released in 2022, became Cruise&#8217;s highest-grossing film, earning over $1 billion globally<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>Cruise last appeared publicly at CinemaCon, where he promoted his upcoming comedy Digger<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Tom Cruise;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/tom-cruise\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Cruise<\/a> is stepping out in style a month after Paramount Pictures confirmed Top Gun 3 was in the works at the studio.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, 63, was seen touching down at the London Heliport on Thursday, May 14, following the news that his box office-breaking 2022 hit Top Gun: Maverick would be getting a follow-up film.<\/p>\n<p>He was later seen walking through the airport terminal, greeting airport staff. Cruise wore a collared black jacket and black slacks, paired with aviator sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tom Cruise touched down at London Heliport on May 14, 2026Credit: BACKGRID\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/27c4cc18185d92df46e8a0bd7bd8f69d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise touched down at London Heliport on May 14, 2026<br \/>Credit: BACKGRID<\/p>\n<p>Josh Greenstein, co-head of Paramount Pictures, announced on April 16 during a presentation at CinemaCon that Top Gun 3 was \u201cofficially in development with a script underway,\u201d with Cruise set to reprise his role as Pete &#8220;Maverick&#8221; Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>While the actor didn&#8217;t join the stage for the presentation, he did appear in a video, saying, \u201cThe future looks pretty great from here&#8221; while atop the iconic water tower on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tom Cruise touched down at London Heliport on May 14, 2026Credit: BACKGRID\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/a49f371f88a3bbbc317dcd07a331d5cc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise touched down at London Heliport on May 14, 2026<br \/>Credit: BACKGRID<\/p>\n<p>Cruise&#8217;s last public appearance was at CinemaCon, two days before the Top Gun announcement, as he joined the stage for Warner Bros. presentation of <a data-ylk=\"slk:Digger;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/tom-cruise-dances-shovel-first-170231630.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digger<\/a>, his new comedy for Revenant director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu (in theaters Oct. 2).<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Cruise returned to the Top Gun franchise 36 years after the original was released in theaters. Maverick earned over $1 billion at the global box office and became the highest-grossing movie of Cruise&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>Though a release date for the sequel has yet to be announced, a script has reportedly been <a data-ylk=\"slk:in the works;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/tom-cruise-feeling-speed-again-193747028.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the works<\/a> for over two years.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"TOP GUN: MAVERICK, (aka TOP GUN 2), Tom Cruise,Credit: Paramount Pictures \/ Courtesy Everett Collection\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/8dbf2aa9931b9290ca749921dc4c3513.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TOP GUN: MAVERICK, (aka TOP GUN 2), Tom Cruise,<br \/>Credit: Paramount Pictures \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a data-ylk=\"slk:It&#039;s already in the bag;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/top-gun-3-closer-think-173726606.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s already in the bag<\/a>,&#8221; Christopher McQuarrie, who co-wrote and produced Maverick, shared of whether coming up with another idea was &#8220;harder to crack&#8221; in a May 2025 episode of Josh Horowitz&#8217;s <a data-ylk=\"slk:Happy, Sad Confused;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNmwfjEvXiw&amp;t=3377s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Happy, Sad Confused<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><a data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou walk into the room going, \u2018Come on, what are we going to do?&#8217; And [Top Gun: Maverick writer] Ehren Kruger pitched something, and I went \u2018Hmm, actually\u2026&#8217; And we had one conversation about it,\u201d McQuarrie explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe framework is there, so no, it&#8217;s not hard to crack,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tom-cruise-makes-first-public-appearance-since-top-gun-3-announcement-11975872\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Tom Cruise was spotted in London a month after Paramount confirmed Top Gun 3 is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,325783,53,15329,11683,132570,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-799331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-london-heliport","tag-movies","tag-paramount","tag-tom-cruise","tag-top-gun","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116581317310295565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}