Pacific Rim 2 seemed dead in the water not so long ago but the film has been getting some injections of hope first in the name of Steven S. DeKnight now John Boyega has join the fray. DeKnight is directing the film, with original director Guillermo del Toro acting as producer with co-creator Trais Beachum. Boyega has been cast in the lead role, and will play the son of Idris Elba's character, Stacker Pentacost, from the first film. In addition to his on-camera role, Boyega has also been added as a producer alongside his partner in his new film company Upper Room Productions, Femi Oguns.
“It is undeniable that with all his talent and natural charm, John stands out amongst today's generation of young leading men,” said Legendary's Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production, Mary Parent. "I am very proud and happy to welcome John into a fantastic sandbox," del Toro said. "The Pacific Rim universe will be reinforced with him as a leading man as it continues to be a multicultural, multi-layered world. ‘The World saving the world’ was our goal and I couldn't think of a better man for the job." "So happy! My company UpperRoom Productions founded by myself & @MrFemiOguns, will co-produce #PacificRim2 alongside @Legendary", John Boyega (from Twitter). "I'm doubly excited to be working with you, John! Can't wait to show the world what we're cooking up! @JohnBoyega", Steven S. DeKnight (from Twitter).
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Del Toro gave Movie Pilot hints to what is planned for the Pacific Rim animated series and that it would bridge the gap to the second film, it also seem like it would focus on the scientist duo of Newton Geiszler (Charlie Day) and Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman). Check out what Del Toro said below and click here for the full article. "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 main idea that we're bouncing off is the fact that Newt drifted with a Kaiju brain, and all Kaiju brains are connected. We say that. They are like a hive mentality. So, you know, draw your own conclusions." Guillermo Del Toro, in an interview with Collider, stated plans for film of Pacific Rim 2 and that he is looking for it to lead into Pacific Rim 3. Del Toro reiterated how the sequel will be a different experience, and stated the quote below, “Some of your favorite characters come back, some others don’t because we have decided that we’re going to shoot ambitiously and say ‘Let’s hope we have three movies,’ so some characters come in at the end of the second, hoping that it will ramp up on the third one.” With Godzilla planned as a trilogy, and the serious possibility Skull Island could get a sequel if it does well, we could have a steady stream of kaiju movies. One negative is the trilogies aren't something that seems to happen with Del Toro (Hellboy). More as we get it. From Collider Here is some of what Guillermo del Toro had to say about the Pacific Rim animated series that will help fill the gap till the next movie. “We are right now in the middle of talking and negotiating with a few Japanese companies for the animation. 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.” “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.” “If it connects we’ll go on [to more seasons], but the thing is I don’t want it to be weekly adventures. I don’t want it to be like Chapter One is a little action thing and it gets resolved in 40 minutes or an hour and then the next episode, [it’s like] nothing happened. My favorite anime series always have a long arc.” “Legendary is talking to a few outlets so I’d rather not disclose myself. The way we set up The Strain was to talk to everyone, literally, on the map, and then find who’s response we sort of jibe with the most. I think in this series, it would be great to find a place that can give it a proper presentation and can advertise the creation of the series. So we’re open to being pleasantly surprised everywhere.” From Collider “Right away, in February/March I should [start on] another very small movie, black and white, really, really bizarre before starting—we start pre-production on Pacific Rim 2 in August, and then I interrupt it briefly to go into the first of next year to do this strange little movie, and then I restart it and go all the way until we start shooting Pacific Rim 2 at the end of 2015 for release in 2017.” From an interview from the WSJ's Speakeasy with Guillermo Del Toro. 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. What did you feel about Gareth Edwards’ “Godzilla”? Do you feel like you have to top it? Well, it’s a very different tone. What is great about Gareth is that he went for a really, an almost-Spielberg shock-and-awe tone that is very different from “Pacific Rim.” The thing is, when you deal with a world that has a single anomaly, meaning you have basically one monster or two battling each other, then you can take a darker tone and be metaphorical. Or when you have a single robot — namely, for example, Brad Bird’s “The Iron Giant” — you can, once again, be more reflective and build deeper into a theme than when you have to … this is a world where giant robots are possible, giant monsters are possible. So the tone has to be … I decided that it had to be more like an adventure movie. I used two analogies that were pretty invisible in the first movie: one was a sports movie, and the other was a western. I tried to bring characterization on the move. My main two characters, both [Charlie Hunnam] and [Rinko Kikuchi], play characters that have less lines than any other characters in the movie almost. They talk very little. You know them by the way they behave, the way they do and do not. In “Godzilla,” what was great is that you had this Spielbergian sense of scope and adventure, and a much darker tone. So, they don’t intersect tonally at all. Do you plan on expanding the cast and adding new characters in “Pacific Rim 2″? I’m hoping to bring the same idea I had in the first movie, that was to make it multicultural and humanistic as much as possible, to make characters from many nationalities or gender, to make them equal in the scope of the adventure, in the day-to-day of the adventure. So, we’re bringing a few characters that are new and hopefully doing good work managing those that survived the first movie. (laughs) When do you expect production to start on “Pacific Rim 2″? I start designing in six weeks. It takes me nine months to design a movie like that. People see the movie, and they have to see that we designed everything in the movie, from ID cards or patches, pamphlets, posters, signs, sets. I start with a core team for about six months designing the jaegers and the kaiju, you know, so we know how many kaiju, how many jaegers. We are creating some new jaegers and a lot of new kaiju. We start [designing the production] in August. Read the full interview here. Del Toro just gave fans some awesome news! From Bleeding Cool
While Legendary haven’t given the film a green light, much less Warner Bros. pictures, Guillermo Del Toro says that he’s working on Pacific Rim with the belief that, someday, he’ll get to shoot it. Buzzfeed spoke with the director at the Austin TV Fest during promotions for The Strain. The key point of his update was that his new collaborator on Pacific Rim 2 is Zak Penn, a man with The Last Action Hero, The Avengers, The Grand and a whole lot more on his quite remarkable resume. "I’m working very, very hard with Zak Penn. We’ve been working for a few months now in secret. We found a way to twist it around. Travis Beacham was involved in the storyline and now I’m writing with Zak because Travis has become a TV mogul." Buzzfeed say that Del Toro hopes to shoot the Pacific Rim sequel after ‘his next project,’ though it’s not clear if this means Crimson Peak or something else. There were also a few crumbs of info as to what the story will involve: "Some people were wondering if we were going to do the prequel. I was never interested in doing that first wave of invasion. I’m going for very new, very crazy ideas on the second one, which are very different from the first one — but you will get really great spectacle." Sounds to me like he’s sticking to the idea of going through the rift and showing us the Kaiju’s dimension. Perhaps unsurprisingly, but certainly pleasingly, Del Toro also said that Raleigh Beckett and Mako Mori are in the script. I’m definitely a big, big supporter of the first film, and I’m absolutely sure it’s only going to make more and more fans as it plays and plays and plays on TV and folk lend their Blu-ray copies around. There’s definitely an audience for Pacific Rim 2, and even more so, scope for Del Toro (and Penn, and Beacham) to bring us something exciting and interesting and surprising. From Cinema Blend Hey, Hollywood? Where is that Pacific Rim 2 we were promised? OK, we weren’t exactly promised a follow up to Guillermo del Toro’s combative, pulse-racing monsters-versus-robots blockbuster Pacific Rim. But movies that earn $411 million at the global box office tend to get a sequel. Movies that charm the critics (71% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) tend to get a sequel. And movies that have the writer and director blatantly talking about ideas for a sequel tend to get a sequel! So where do we stand with Pacific Rim 2? The original Rim hit theaters in July 2013, introducing an alternate future where Kaiju creatures emerged from our planet’s oceans, threatening our major cities. Once mankind realized these beasts weren’t going away, we came up with a way to fight back. We created skyscraper-sized robots called Jaegars, and trained pilots to use them in battle. And the program worked… for a while. At the time of Pacific Rim's release, Del Toro – no stranger to sequels, having helmed two Hellboy movies – didn’t shy away from the sequel question. Pacific Rim screenwriter Travis Beacham teased fans by saying he hoped the movie earned enough money to justify Pacific Rim 2, because he and Del Toro had crazy idea. We were told that China was a crucial market to the success of Pacific Rim 2. Then, the film performed well overseas, and in August, Pacific Rim 2 looked likely. Seven months later, Del Toro and some of the key players finally are talking.
In an interview with ShockTilYouDrop, Legendary Pictures head Thomas Tull approached the subject of pacific Rim 2, saying: "I was literally just with Guillermo on the set of Crimson Peak. We talk about it and have some pretty great ideas. If they come to fruition and we get a great script, then we're open to it. Fans seem pretty passionate about it and working with Guillermo. So, we're open to it." That backs up a conversation Del Toro had in October, where he told IGN that he was working on the screenplay for a Pacific Rim 2 with Beacham, but the power to greenlight it wasn’t his. "We are writing the sequel. Travis Beacham and I are writing, so that is active. The decision to green light or not, that’s definitely above my pay rate." He also confirmed work on Pacific Rim 2 to Rolling Stone in October: "Legendary gave me the absolute go-ahead with writing the screenplay, so Travis Beacham and I are working on it. As far as giving it a green light, that's the big step of the process. We need to put together a budget and then they'll make that decision, but everybody is unwavering in their love for the movie." Now that Legendary has said that they are open to it, however, the wheels should turn even quicker. The hold up might be attributed to Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, a horror thriller he’s currently filming with Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain and Rim star Charlie Hunnam. Beyond that, his name has been attached to a Pinocchio reboot, and a DC adaptation of Justice League Dark. But as Legendary prepares to launch a new Godzilla, and audiences’ attentions continue to focus on beasts emerging from the seas, you get he sense that Pacific Rim 2 is inching closer and closer to the production pipeline. Maybe even that crossover story we once imagined. Our fingers remain crossed. We have our fingers crossed as well. |
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