Miles Teller continues to be ready to really feel the necessity for velocity.
The “Top Gun 2” actor, 37, appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Wednesday and claimed he hasn’t heard any updates concerning the third movie.
“Look, you might be shocked, but I do not green light that thing,” Teller stated. “I have nothing to do [with it].”
Teller, who performed Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw within the 2022 sequel, revealed the one demand he gave Tom Cruise for his “Top Gun 3” prep.
“I just told Tom, I said, give me enough time, a heads up for me to get in shape,” Teller shared. “It’s one month per ab. I need six months heads up.”
“That’s the only way I train,” he stated with amusing.
Colbert, 60, then requested Teller: “So yes, it’s happening is what you’re saying?”
However Teller reiterated that he has no “Top Gun 3” updates to share.
“I don’t know. There’s a lot of enthusiasm on the fans side. There’s a lot of enthusiasm on the creative side,” he stated. “So we’ll see.”
The dialog then turned to Colbert pitching his concept for the third movie.
“The navy switches over to drones. AI drones, they’re super effective,” the speak present host stated. “But the drones get hacked so they have to draw the Top Guns back out of retirement to fight the drone army.”
“Man versus machine,” Colbert added, earlier than wanting on the digital camera and warning “Top Gun: Maverick” producer David Ellison to not “steal” his concept.
“I’ll tell him,” Teller stated with amusing.
The second “Top Gun” was acclaimed by critics and grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide.
Information broke in January 2024 that Paramount Footage was formally creating a 3rd “Top Gun” film, with Cruise, 62, anticipated to return because the lead star and producer.
However like Teller, co-star Lewis Pullman stated that he’s at the hours of darkness about plans for the upcoming movie.
“I haven’t heard hide nor hair about that,” the actor informed The Submit in Aug. 2024.
“But, I would be game to get back up in those planes and especially get back with those actors and those filmmakers,” continued Pullman, who performed LT “Hangman” Seresin in “Top Gun: Maverick.”
He added, “So that would be fun to slip back into that again, but I haven’t gotten a call yet.”
Final March, “Top Gun: Maverick” producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed that he and director Joseph Kosinski approached Cruise with a “wonderful” concept for “Top Gun 3.”
In response to Bruckheimer, Cruise “really liked” their pitch, however they don’t know when the film will likely be made for the reason that motion film star “is too busy.”
Nevertheless, Cruise and Teller’s co-star Glen Powell alluded that “Top Gun 3” was shut to begin filming in July 2024.
“I mean, I have a date,” Powell stated on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. He then declined to provide any extra particulars concerning the movie.
