`Top Gun 3' with Tom Cruise in the early works

Tom Cruise is gearing up to fly back for a third installment of “Top Gun.” A script for another iteration of the high-octane aviation movie franchise is in the works at Paramount, an individual close to the project tells CNN. The film is in very early stages of development, but plans are underway for the sequel which will follow 2022's “Top Gun: Maverick” and the original “Top Gun” from 1986, the source said.