At its present rate (and not counting its several thousand years of pre- society, which barely even rate as “civilization” in the first place, if you ask us) humanity is producing a new movie once every 36 years. That’s not exactly a “need for speed” type situation, but rest assured, Danger Zone enthusiasts: Jerry Bruckheimer has plans cooking to get you more of the “planes go fast” action that you crave. , which reports that Bruckheimer—currently in the midst of promoting , which is less of a white-knuckle explosion of cinematic jet fuel—was also talking up a potential sequel to 2022's , which has a story treatment, and is now only lacking two additional components: An actual script, and a block of time on star Tom Cruise’s extremely busy schedule.
“I think we have a terrific story,” Bruckheimer asserted. “It’s just [a question of] how do we get everybody together and how do we get it done. Tom’s very busy.
He’s got a lot of movies lined up, and he’s a very in-demand actor. So we’ll have to get a good screenplay, and hopefully, he’ll like it as much as we will.” (Bruckheimer didn’t mention it, but he’s presumably also waiting for director Joseph Kosinski’s schedule to clear up; he’s currently working on a still-untitled Formula One movie with Brad Pitt, also for Bruckheimer.
) Two years on, it’s still easy to see how big a movie the sequel was for Bruckheimer: Although he still has an prolific hand in TV, where he continues to.
