Glen Powell has confirmed he is returning for High Gun 3. Days after phrase acquired out that Paramount has one other instalment within the pipeline after the success of 2022’s High Gun: Maverick – a sequel to the unique 1986 High Gun film – Powell has teased that himself (Hangman), Tom Cruise (Maverick) and Miles Teller (Rooster) will likely be reuniting and an official announcement is coming quickly.
Chatting with Selection, he stated of the hearsay: “Folks checked out me like I knew what was occurring.
“There’s going to be some enjoyable stuff being introduced quickly…nevertheless it was confidential to me. I discuss to (Joseph) Kosinski, Cruise and Jerry (Bruckheimer) on a regular basis. There’s stuff occurring and it sounds very thrilling. I don’t know after I’ll be going again… I’m certain there’s a jet ready for me someday sooner or later.”
Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote High Gun: Maverick, is alleged to be penning a draft script for the brand new instalment of the blockbuster movie franchise.
Additionally it is thought producers Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison will return to the franchise, and Maverick director Joe Kosinski might return to helm or produce the following movement image.
High Gun: Maverick was nominated for six Academy Awards, together with Greatest Image, and walked away with Greatest Sound.
The film was additionally the highest-grossing of Cruise’s profession after raking in additional than US$1.49 billion on the worldwide field workplace.
Director Kosinski beforehand credited the “old-school” nature of High Gun: Maverick for the film’s reputation.
Requested in regards to the movie’s excellent field workplace efficiency, the filmmaker instructed The Hollywood Reporter: “Nicely, we made the movie to be loved on the large display, in the perfect theatre you’ll find, and we lastly had been at a time the place individuals felt comfy going again to the theatre to rediscover that have that all of us missed for a few years. So I believe that had so much to do with it.
“The story additionally resonated with individuals. They acquired to see Tom come again to the function of Maverick after 35 years, and that was an actual thrill for individuals. So we simply needed to make an old-school film.
“We shot it in an old-school means with actual high-tech gear, and I believe individuals actually felt all the hassle that went into capturing a sensible film.
“The suggestions I saved getting from individuals was that they had been gripping the sting of their seat whereas watching this. So it is a type of issues the place you actually recognize the facility of sensible filmmaking as you are being instructed a narrative.”