McQuarrie On “Top Gun 3,” “Superman” & More

With his “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” in cinemas and on track for a $77 million Memorial Day opening weekend domestically, filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie has been out there talking up the film and other movies he has in development. In a lengthy one-hour sitdown with Happy Sad Confused, he and host Josh Horowitz discussed […] The post McQuarrie On “Top Gun 3,” “Superman” & More appeared first on Dark Horizons.

May 26, 2025 - 21:30

McQuarrie On “Top Gun 3,” “Superman” & More

With his “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” in cinemas and on track for a $77 million Memorial Day opening weekend domestically, filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie has been out there talking up the film and other movies he has in development.

In a lengthy one-hour sitdown with Happy Sad Confused, he and host Josh Horowitz discussed a range of topics including the much anticipated follow-up to “Top Gun Maverick”.

He says they already cracked the premise fairly early on and so he and co-writer Ehren Kruger are actively developing it:

“It [the premise] is already in the bag…Yeah, I already know what it is, wasn’t hard. I thought it would be, and that’s a good place to go from…Ehren Kruger pitched something, and the framework is there, so, no, it’s not hard to crack. The truth of the matter is none of these are hard to crack. IIt’s not the scope or scale of action, the engineering of the action, it’s none of those things, it’s the emotion. I’ve given that absolutely no thought whatsoever.”

He was also asked if he might be taking over directing duties if filmmaker Joseph Kosinski is busy. He responds: “I have done a lot of research into how to make a Tony Scott movie. I’m not the kind of director who gets squeamish about making a sequel to a Tony Scott movie.”

He also talked about his iteration of Superman which was never made but would’ve seen Henry Cavill’s Superman getting into conflict with Green Lantern:

“It was ‘Green Lantern’ that came to me, and ‘Green Lantern’ is a tough one; the power is very challenging. And I cracked it and it was fun, watching him learning to use that power and giving that power a flaw, so it wasn’t pure invincibility.
The whole concept of Green Lantern is ring has to be re-charged…you only have so much battery life, and that can run out at an inconvenient time. That, for me, solved the Green Lantern problem. The costume is another thing.
Henry [Cavill] had a take on that, and I suddenly realised how these two characters had similarities, which also allowed for an amazing conflict and amazing universe-expanding resolution.
But I will tell you the first five minutes of my ‘Superman’…a sequence without dialogue that was a setup after you knew what exactly made Superman tick and exactly what Superman was afraid of, and why Superman made the choices he made, and it would have been epic. Superman is about hope, and it’s about being inspiring and that joy the character created.”

Interestingly a version of Green Lantern will show up in James Gunn’s “Superman” film, but that will be a supporting character played by Nathan Fillion who will reprise the role in both “Lanterns” and “Peacemaker” Season 2.

For the full interview, check out the clip below:

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