Tom Cruise He has announced that he will take to the skies again, this time with ‘Top Gun 3’. According to the latest announcement, the actor is in line for one of the biggest paydays in Hollywood history as he is set to reprise his iconic role as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell in ‘Top Gun 3’.The Daily Mail reports that the actor, who previously earned GBP 75 million with “Top Gun: Maverick” (2022), the blockbuster sequel to the 1986 original, will now cross the GBP 100 million mark, largely due to a blockbuster profit. According to the report, Cruise is expected to get a big payday for the third installment. Apart from being an actor, he will also return as a producer in the franchise, and is also expected to get a share of the film’s box office profits.Cruise will reportedly receive a salary of around GBP 18 million, along with around 8 percent of the film’s profits. If ‘Top Gun 3’ is able to reach GBP 1 billion, Cruise will get GBP 75 million from profits alone.If the numbers add up, Cruise will join a long list of stars like Robert Downey Jr, who was reportedly paid $100 million USD for returning to the MUC in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’. the actor Ryan Reynolds it also grossed $100 million in total with the billion-dollar hit “Deadpool & Wolverine.”Cruise is also no stranger to the $100 million club, having previously won box office and streaming revenue for “Mission: Impossible 2” and “War of the Worlds.”It was announced last week that a third installment of the blockbuster franchise was in the works, with a film slated for a summer 2028 release. The news was officially confirmed by Josh Greenstein at CinemaCon last week in Las Vegas. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Cruise and co-writer Ehren Kruger are already developing the script.Directed by Joseph Kosinski, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ also starred Miles Teller and Glen Powell as young pilots driven by Cruise’s character. While Cruise is set for his return, it is unclear if the second half will return for the third installment.
