Top Gun: Maverick was one of the biggest box office hits of 2022, and now Tom Cruise’s Top Gun 3 faces some of the biggest challenges of the franchise. The sequel saw Cruise return to the cockpit as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell for a follow up to his 1986 hit, this time having the former hotshot pilot teaching a new group of Top Gun graduates, with bigger action sequences and more stunning aerial shots of fighter jets than ever before. On a budget of $170 million, it made an impressive $1.496 billion globally, all but guaranteeing that Top Gun 3 was going to be the natural progression for the action series.
