Last week, director
Guillermo del Toro announced that a sequel for Pacific Rim had been greenlit,
as well as an animated series.
While promoting his upcoming FX series, The Strain, the director spoke with The
Wall Street Journal and revealed some things about the Pacific Rim 2 and the
animated series.
Pacific Rim 2 open on April 7, 2017 and Charlie
Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, and Charlie Day are expected to return.
Without spoiling anything, what can fans expect
from “Pacific Rim 2″?
We are three years away, so to spoil anything would be fantastically silly
of me. What I can tell you: [screenwriter Zak Penn] and I really went in, we
started with [screenwriter Travis Beacham] about a year and a half ago, kicking
ideas back and forth. And, admittedly, I said to Zak, let’s keep kicking ideas
till we find one that really, really turns the first movie on its ear, so to
speak. (…) It was hard to create a world that did not come from a comic book,
that had its own mythology, so we had to sacrifice many aspects to be able to
cram everything in the first movie. Namely, for example “the Drift” (editor’s
note: the neural link between pilots of the giant robots, or jaegers),
which was an interesting concept. [Then there was] this portal that ripped a
hole into the fabric of our universe, what were the tools they were using? And
we came up with a really, really interesting idea. I don’t want to spoil it,
but I think at the end of the second movie, people will find out that the two
movies stand on their own. They’re very different from each other, although
hopefully bringing the same joyful giant spectacle. But the tenor of the two
movies will be quite different.
What can you tell me about the animated “Pacific
Rim” series? Do you know which network will carry it?
We are talking about all the possibilities in terms of networks. We’re
formulating ideas that are, again, interesting and not the usual route, but the
series tackles the stories that happened to pilots working in the Shatterdome (editor’s
note: a building where jaegers are built and maintained and pilots train),
but also cadets learning how to become pilots. All of this happens prior to the
first movie, and it gives you a little more depth into the background of
certain characters that will appear in the second movie. So it’s really
expanding the material. I was incredibly happy with the comic book series that
came about from a graphic novel called “Tales From Year Zero,” and we
are continuing the tales for the next three years. So by the time the second
movie comes out, you will have probably one year of the animation airing, and
you will have three years of the comic book series ongoing, so we are trying
for all these things to be canon, to be in the same universe, to not wing
anything, so that if anyone … a lot of kids, for example, have discovered
“Pacific Rim” through the toys. They come in through the toys, and then they
watch the movie, and then they learn this, they learn that through the movie or
the comic book series, so we’re trying to make it canon so we can expand the
universe. And by the time we come into the second movie, you have a good feel
for the world, and we can dedicate ourselves to character and ideas and
spectacle.
Source - The Wall Street Journal
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