A brand new “High Gun” film is reportedly on the horizon – and this time round, Paramount Photos is not making us wait 36 years for it.
Nonetheless using excessive from the success of “High Gun: Maverick,” Paramount is reportedly engaged on a 3rd installment of the wildly standard franchise, with main males Tom Cruise, Miles Teller and Glen Powell and “Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski all mentioned to be doubtlessly returning for an additional sortie.
News of a brand new “High Gun” film comes from a report in Puck, a digital-media startup that is made a splash since its founding in 2021 with credible reporting on America’s energy facilities from Washington, D.C. to Hollywood. (Representatives of Paramount declined to touch upon the report.)
Cruise has spent the previous couple of years attempting to make a film with scenes shot aboard the Worldwide Area Station. It could have been the primary movie shot in house, however Russian filmmakers beat him to the punch. He just lately signed a deal to create film franchises for Paramount competitor Warner Bros., however the deal left him free to proceed working elsewhere. He is presently engaged on one other Paramount franchise movie, “Mission: Not possible — Useless Reckoning Half Two,” and was additionally the star of Paramount’s Jack Reacher film sequence.
“High Gun: Maverick” was a crucial and industrial success for each Cruise and Paramount Photos, turning into the actor’s highest-grossing movie of all time and the studio’s second-highest grossing movie ever, eclipsed solely by the 1997 movie “Titanic.” Like “Titanic,” “Maverick” additionally earned a nomination for Finest Image however misplaced to “All the things, In every single place, All at As soon as” on the ninety fifth Academy Awards. The movie was additionally nominated for Finest Sound (which it received), Finest Tailored Screenplay, Authentic Music, Enhancing and Visible Results.
The U.S. navy will most likely be the happiest to listen to information of a brand new “High Gun” film. Though the declare that the unique “High Gun” movie in 1986 boosted Navy recruits by 500% has turned out to be bogus, the ocean service nonetheless noticed a big enhance in curiosity following the film’s launch, with new enlistments rising 8% that yr. With the U.S. navy presently within the throes of a recruiting disaster in recent times, an 8% enhance in new recruits is one thing the Navy (and different branches) might solely dream of.
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