Director Joseph Kosinski, who helmed “Top Gun: Maverick,” is back with his high-profile Formula 1 action flick starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, and Javier Bardem, coming to theaters this week. The filmmaker is making the press rounds to help promote “F1” (read The Playlist’s review here) and dishing some updates concerning the development of “Top Gun 3.”
Speaking with GQ Magazine, Kosinski says that Tom Cruise‘s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell is looking at dealing with an “existential crisis” before stopping himself from revealing too much, and isn’t going to make the movie, being written by “F1” screenwriter Ehren Kruger (involvement first revealed by Christopher McQuarrie), unless they have “a strong enough story.”
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“I think we’ve found a way to do it, not only in the scale of what we’re proposing, but the idea itself of the story we’re telling. We’re thinking much bigger than…It’s a really existential crisis that Maverick has in this, and it’s much bigger than himself. It actually… I’m trying to describe it without giving anything away. [Laughs.] It’s an existential question that Maverick has to deal with, that would make Maverick feel small, I think, as a movie, compared to what we’re talking about.”
“Yeah, there’s still more story to tell for him. There’s one last ride. So we’re working on it now. Ehren Kruger, who wrote F1, is writing the script. Like all things, it takes a while to work things out, and we’ll only do it if we feel like we’ve got a strong enough story,” Kosinski said of the development of “Top Gun 3.”
We have to assume that the cast assembled for “Top Gun 3” could see the return of cast members from “Top Gun: Maverick” such as Miles Teller, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Parnell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Manny Jacinto, and Jon Hamm.
That said, Kosinski is going to be busy for the foreseeable future with Apple‘s UFO mystery thriller that has nabbed a script from Zach Baylin (“King Richard”) and Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Another exciting project on the horizon is a new “Miami Vice” movie at Universal Pictures with a script penned by Dan Gilroy (“Nightcrawler”).
Audiences can watch “F1” very soon as the pic races onto screens June 27.
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