Reese Witherspoon says Top Gun: Maverick has given "a lot of inspiration" to Legally Blonde 3

Reese Witherspoon says Top Gun: Maverick has given “a lot of inspiration” to Legally Blonde 3

August 1st 2022, 10:24am

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These two movies couldn’t be any more different, but Reese Witherspoon says that Top Gun: Maverick has provided “a lot of inspiration” for Legally Blonde 3. I guess the third Legally Blonde outing could be viewed as a legacy sequel of sorts like Top Gun: Maverick since the first film hit screens back in 2001, and its first sequel was released in 2003.

During a chat with USA Today, Witherspoon teased the status of development on Legally Blonde 3, and the actress said that she remains hopeful that the sequel will still be made and that Top Gun: Maverick has helped generate more ideas on how the third film should be shaped:

“I’m still hoping that Legally Blonde 3 is gonna come together in the right way. It’s just like Top Gun: They waited a long time to make another version of that movie, and I loved the nostalgia piece they incorporated in it. So definitely that gave us a lot of inspiration about what we would want to do with Elle Woods and make sure that we had all those same touchstones that mattered to people [back] then. “I feel like these characters are my friends, so I safeguard them. I would never make the subpar, mediocre version of their story.”

There is no shame in being inspired by Top Gun: Maverick because its success this year has been extraordinary. The film is one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, and it has remained in the top five box office since opening over Memorial Day weekend. The film has grossed $650.1 million domestically and $1.3 billion worldwide.

Witherspoon confirmed back in 2018 that was in talks to return as Elle Woods for Legally Blonde 3. Two years later, Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor signed on to pen the script, and later that year, MGM posted a message to its official Twitter page announcing a May 2022 release date. That, of course, has come and gone without the release of the third film, so the project currently doesn’t have a scheduled date for its release.

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