Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at a charity golf event, Teller was answering a question about the possibility of a third Top Gun movie. “That would be great, but that depends [Tom Cruise]. It all depends on Tom. I’ve had some discussions with him about it. We’ll see.” Top Gun: Maverick is a “legacy sequel” to the 1986 film Top Gun, in which Cruise reprises his role as hotshot Navy pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Teller plays the young pilot “Rooster” Bradley in Top Gun: Maverick, the son of “Goose” Bradley, who dies in the original. It has proven to be a good commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2022 to date with the worldwide box office currently standing at $1.14 billion (£950 million). It is Tom Cruise’s first film to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office. In May, Teller told Screen Rant that he had pitched a sequel focusing on his character. “I’m trying to get a Top Gun: Rooster … We’ll see what happens … I’m available.”
