How Glen Powell Is Approaching Top Gun 3 Differently After Real-Life Blue Angels Experience
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Summary Top Gun 3 is currently in development with Tom Cruise, Glen Powell, and Miles Teller all expected to return.
Powell recently produced The Blue Angels, a documentary about the real-world aerial demonstration squadron.
Powell has now made three big aviation movies, and he expresses that he'll now feel more comfortable heading into Top Gun 3.
Glen Powell explains how he'll approach Top Gun 3 differently after his experience with the Blue Angels. More than three decades after Tony Scott's original movie, Tom Cruise returned as hotshot pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell for Joe Kosinski's 2022 hit sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, which introduced new characters played by Powell and Miles Teller. Powell is expected to reprise his role as Hangman for the in-development Top Gun 3, but he recently returned to the high-intensity world of flying for The Blue Angels, a documentary he produced about the titular real-world aerial demonstration squadron.
In a recent interview with Screen Rant to promote The Blue Angels, which is now playing in IMAX and is set to release on Prime Video on May 23, Powell reveals how filming the documentary will affect his approach for Top Gun 3. Check out his comment below:
I think that's a great question. Look, with Jerry and Chad and Joe and Tom, there are a lot of very smart brains on [Top Gun 3] that really do not need my brain involved at all. They're going to put a wonderful story together. But I will say that after making Top Gun and making Devotion, you really feel a sense of community in this Navy. When I look at my texts in the morning, the fact that a lot of 'em are call signs is very cool, and the fact that I still call these pilots my friends is really wonderful. I will say that when we made Top Gun Maverick, that was a new shiny world for me. And now I feel that it's still filled with brilliance. It's still shiny to me, but it's also a group of people I call my family. So, I can go into this movie in a different way. Maybe just the fact that it feels a little bit more lived in and a little more comfortable for all of us will be really wonderful.
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