Although Tom Cruise inked a non-exclusive pact at Warner Bros earlier this week, it appears like he’ll proceed to be busy with Paramount for a while. Studies tonight are that Prime Gun 3 is in improvement at Paramount with Prime Gun:Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger at present writing a draft.
The phrase is that the challenge would reunite Cruise with Maverick‘s Miles Teller and Glen Powell in addition to producers Jerry Bruckheimer and David Ellison. Joe Kosinski, will reportedly both direct or produce.
Cruise is at present capturing Mission: Not possible 8 for Paramount. Additionally brewing over at Common is the actor’s outer house film with Nasa. Doug Liman is directing that.
Puck had the information about Prime Gun 3 tonight, they usually’re speculating that it might be the 3x Oscar nominee’s potential subsequent challenge after Mission: Not possible 8. Even with out Prime Gun 3, will probably be a problem for Cruise to get something off the bottom at Warners for a few years.
Prime Gun: Maverick is the very best grossing film of Cruise’s profession at $1.49 billion. It gained one Oscar final yr for Finest Sound and was nominated for six Academy Awards together with Finest Image.
What’s actually evident in tonight’s information is that Ellison’s Skydance, which is circling to scoop up Nationwide Amusements in an all-cash bid, was a producer on Prime Gun: Maverick. Deadline first instructed you that Ellison and Crimson Chook Capital had been kicking the tires on Nationwide Amusements. The Shari Redstone-led exhibitor controls practically 80% of Paramount shares and is the gatekeeper for any M&A deal. One of many backers of the present bid by Skydance is Ellison’s father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison per a WSJ report. Ellison co-financed Prime Gun: Maverick at 25% and shared in an total web revenue for the sequel of $391M.
Deadline reached out to Paramount for remark.
