Jennifer Connelly Wants TOP GUN 3: ‘I’ll Be There’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actress Jennifer Connelly hopes to film a third installment in the TOP GUN franchise.
“I’ll be there. I’m ready. We had such a great time shooting it. It was fun,” the actress told ET. She starred as Penny Benjamin in 2022’s TOP GUN: MAVERICK.
Connelly admitted to having expressed her desire to director Joe Kosinski.
“I haven’t seen anything,” she said. “I had a casual chat with my friend, Joe Kosinski, who directed it, who I worked with twice now. I’m his biggest fan. I think he’s so great. [I talked to him] about the possibility of it, but I don’t know anything concrete.”
TOP GUN 3 isn’t outside the realm of possibility.
“We pitched Tom [Cruise] a story he liked. But he’s a very in-demand actor and he’s got a lot of movies lined up, so we have to wait and see,” producer Jerry Bruckheimer said.
He added that he appreciates Cruise’s work ethic and personable relationship with his cast mates.
“A lot of actors, they finish the day, they get in their car and they go home. Tom stays around, talks to the other actors, looks at the film that they shot, wants to know what’s happening tomorrow. He’s really engaged in every part of the process,” Bruckheimer added.
TOP GUN: MAVERICK was nominated for a Movieguide® Teddy Bear Award®. Part of the review reads:
“TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a sequel to the popular 1986 hit starring Tom Cruise. Cruise plays Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell who after 30 years as a fighter pilot is now a test pilot. After he crashes a supersonic jet, Maverick is sent to the Top Gun school in San Diego to pick six fighter pilots for a dangerous mission to bomb a uranium enrichment plant in a foreign country. He faces two major obstacles. First, the mission looks impossible. Second, one candidate is the son of his late friend, Goose, who died on a training flight with Maverick.”
TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a terrific, powerful, exciting movie. It’s full of high drama and heart-pounding action scenes. This role was made for Tom Cruise. He gets great support from Miles Teller as Goose’s son and Jennifer Connelly as Maverick’s romantic interest. TOP GUN: MAVERICK has a strong moral, Pro-American, patriotic worldview. It also tells a strong redemptive story leading to sacrifice, forgiveness and reconciliation. However, TOP GUN: MAVERICK is marred by too many obscenities and three strong profanities. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises strong or extreme caution.
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