Tom Cruise's Maverick is officially back for Top Gun 3, and the director's story tease could mean that Maverick will die at the end of the film.

Following the critical and commercial success of Top Gun: Maverick, it appears the anticipated Top Gun 3 could be the final hurrah for Tom Cruise's central character, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.

The film sees Tom Cruise return to his iconic character of hot-shot Navy pilot "Maverick." This time around, he's brought back to teach a new batch of "top gunners," who've been recruited for an ...

Tom Cruise is back on the big screen reprising one of the roles that made him a star, and Hollywood is banking that "Top Gun: Maverick" will draw millions back to theaters again.

One of the biggest creative challenges facing Top Gun 3 is giving Cruise’s character another satisfying sendoff without just repeating the emotional beats that made Maverick so effective.

Tom Cruise as Maverick, Anthony Edwards as Goose, Val Kilmer as Iceman, and Barry Tubb as Wolfman in 'Top Gun' From eye-popping aerial footage to an unmistakably '80s soundtrack to the homoerotic ...

He has, of course, already stepped into Scott’s shoes once before. Having directed both “F1” and “Top Gun Maverick,” he also now has relationships with both Cruise and Pitt.

I've known Tom [Cruise] for many years, and was on set this past year for Mission: Impossible, and then I went to the premiere. And the first word out of his mouth is, 'We're doing it.

These are Tom Cruise's 10 highest-grossing movies Top Gun: Maverick ($1.28B as of July 25, 2022) Mission: Impossible – Fallout ($791.6M) Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ($694.7M) ...

During a Comic-Con at Home panel in 2020 hosted by Collider, the director said, "I got to the point where I had Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt at a table read, reading the script together.