Jay Ellis, the actor who shared the display screen alongside Tom Cruise and Miles Teller as Lieutenant Reuben “Payback” Fitch in Prime Gun: Maverick
, has supplied a optimistic replace on the extremely anticipated sequel. Per Ellis, Prime Gun 3 is gearing as much as take flight, with writers at present engaged on the script. Prime Gun: Maverick was one of the essential and profitable films to come back out within the post-COVID-19 period. After its launch, you’ll have thought {that a} sequel was the plain subsequent step for Paramount Photos and star Tom Cruise. Nonetheless, it seems they do not need to rush the movie for the sake of a money seize. Cruise cares about his tales, and author Ehren Kruger is probably going in tune with discovering the proper one.
Ellis, who has additionally appeared in movies like Escape Room, Anyone I Used to Know and TV exhibits like Insecure, supplied the encouraging replace not too long ago. At first, he joked concerning the sequel, however then supplied some info as to the standing of manufacturing: “So this is what the story’s going to be. It may be “Payback.” No, no, in all honesty, they’re nonetheless engaged on the script. They’re nonetheless engaged on the story. They’re eager to get it proper.” Ellis continues:
“, Tom [Cruise] is a stickler, and that basically comes from him wanting to ensure the viewers will get what they paid for and that they’re entertained. [So] that for these two hours, they will totally disappear on this theater, and the world round them doesn’t exist anymore, and [be] totally entertained. That is the place the main target is.
[It’s also about] actually ensuring that this story is just not achieved simply to make a film, however made as a result of these characters are going to make folks lean in.”
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As one of many largest motion movies in current cinematic historical past, this is why Prime Gun: Maverick ended up higher than the unique.
Prime Gun 3 has been in growth since early 2024. Paramount Photos greenlit the sequel in January and confirmed Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski had been set to return. Glen Powell and Miles Teller, co-stars within the sequel, are additionally returning to reprise their roles as Hangman and Rooster, the 2 pilots becoming a member of Cruise’s Maverick in combating the baddies with spectacular aerial maneuvers.
Can ‘Prime Gun 3’ Be as Profitable as ‘Prime Gun: Maverick’?
2022’s Prime Gun: Maverick was a significant blockbuster, the primary after the COVID-19 pandemic majorly affected the way in which folks go to the cinema. Nevertheless, Cruise reprising a job from 36 years in the past was thrilling sufficient to persuade folks to return to film theaters to return to the hazard zone. It made roughly $1.5 billion on the field workplace and have become the second highest-grossing movie of the yr, solely to be topped by James Cameron’s Avatar: The Approach of Water. Maverick was not solely a profitable movie with audiences. The essential reception was nice as effectively. It acquired six nominations on the Academy Awards (together with Greatest Image), and received the Oscar for Greatest Sound.
Topping the success of Prime Gun: Maverick is just not going to be simple. The sequel was a powerful characteristic that proved Cruise is on the prime of his recreation, and he does not solely do mind-bending stunts as Ethan Hunt within the Mission: Inconceivable franchise. He may also take part in compelling movies with robust characters. Failure is just not an possibility, they usually simply need to attempt to make one thing higher, as troublesome as which may be.
Supply: US Weekly