Just a few weeks ago Guillermo del Toro announced
that a Pacific Rim animated series was in development and that Pacific Rim 2
would drop on April 7, 2017.
At the time del Toro only announced the two
projects, but now while speaking to Collider, the director revealed that the
upcoming anime will be episodic in nature.
“We
are right now in the middle of talking and negotiating with a few Japanese
companies for the animation,” Del Toro told Collider. “We are talking to a couple of showrunners
that have a strong animation background, [we're] casting the writers room.
What’s great is it’s a great set-up and a link between the first movie and the
second movie. It really enhances the mythology of the characters; we have
cameos of characters from the first movie, but mostly it’s a new set of
characters. New jaegers, except for one or two, [and] new kaijus. It’s really
fun.”
The director went on
to say they’re planning for a 13 episode first season with each episode
focusing on a different aspect of the Pacific Rim world.
“We’re
going for a long arc, so the idea is to show a group of characters—we have
pilots, functional jaegers, but we have all these younger characters. I really
want to explore things that are complimentary to the things that I want to
explore in the second movie: drift, what drifting does to you, what is needed
to drift, a lot of stuff that I think is important, but also the jaeger
technology, the kaijus being evolved, ideas about the precursors—the guys that
control the kaijus. We have a lot of leeway in 13 episodes and I wanna make it
sort of in the same spirit of Pacific Rim, which is the ideal audience for
Pacific Rim was young—very young, 11-year-olds and so forth—but with really
beautiful design and stories that make these characters interesting in a way
that I found them interesting in, for example, Year Zero, the graphic novel
that we did. And I think that’s the basic thrust of the thing."
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