Pacific Rim 2 Green-lit for Production, Now at the Script-Writing Stage; to Explore Humans ‘Drifting’ with Kaijus; Animation and Comic Book Series to be Launched Bridging Upcoming Film

Pacific Rim 2 Green-lit for Production, Now at the Script-Writing Stage; to Explore Humans 'Drifting' with Kaijus; Animation and Comic Book Series to be Launched Bridging Upcoming Film

Pacific Rim 2 release date is on April 7, 2017, according to an announcement by Universal Pictures. Showrunner and director Guillermo del Toro in a talk with Buzzfeed said: "The characters I love will return. Raleigh, Mako, Newt, Gottlieb and who knows, maybe even Hannibal Chau - but we are taking them into a fresh territory that will display amazing sights and battles. The first film set the stage and now we're ready to have a blast." Del Toro will co-write the script with Zak Penn and Travis Beacham. Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will once again produce, alongside del Toro, Mary Parent and Callum Greene. Jillian Share will be executive producer. Universal Pictures will be releasing the Pacific Rim sequel movie worldwide in 3D and IMAX 3D.

Filming will only begin by November next year so there's no official Pacific Rim trailer just yet. Also the Pacific Rim 2 plot is still being worked out at this stage. In a July interview with Slash Film, del Toro explained the process that will be observed: "We start designing in three weeks. We get the first draft of the screenplay in three weeks; Zak Penn and I are co-writing and then there's a long, long, long journey of drafts and design. It took nine months to design "Pacific Rim"; it will take nine months or more to design the second one. We start scouting for the movie in the summer next year, July, and then we start shooting in November. Then it's a long year of post after we wrap and we'll probably be showing the movie in January/February 2017 to test audiences."Based on the reaction of the test audiences, additional tweaking may have to be done before the film is finally released to theaters on the April 7, 2017, announced date.

In the hit Pacific Rim 2013 movie, Charlie Hunnam was cast as Raleigh, Rinko Kikuchi as Mako, Charlie Day as Newt, Burn Gorman as Gottlieb and Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chau. They will likely return to reprise their Pacific Rim role in the planned sequel. The setting for Pacific Rim 2 will no longer be just in the Pacific. According to Slash Film, Del Torro revealed: "No, it's all over the world this time. I want it to be different enough to the first one that you don't feel you're seeing the same movie. I'm doing a little more location-oriented stuff, there are night battles, but there are also daylight battles. The things we do in the action scenes is very different from the first one. We are expanding the mythology of the Anteverse. We are taking the characters into a completely different journey this time because Raleigh for me solved his problem the minute he was able to go full circle and save Mako by sacrificing himself, which is what he couldn't do with his brother. He's not on that journey anymore, he's on a new journey." Pacific Rim 2 will also be showing more of the alien world of the Kaiju invaders. Also, in another interview, del Toro further revealed: "...the main idea that we're bouncing off is the fact that Newt drifted with a Kaiju brain and all Kaiju brains were connected..." Given what Newton saw, it's possible that in Pacific Rim 2, a Jaegers/Kaiju hybrid could come about.

In related Pacific Rim 2 news, an animated series and a comic book series will be launched to act as bridge between the Pacific Rim 2013 movie and the upcoming 2017 film. The series will explore more deeply the evolution of the Kaiju, the Jaegers technology and the Drift process. The series will comprise of a 13-episode-long single-story arc.

 

 

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