Pacific Rim 2 AND 3?!

Guillermo del Toro has a lot of thoughts on what he wants the Pacific Rim franchise to become. While speaking with Collider, he said that the script is getting reworked for a few months and del Toro hopes to be in pre-production by August of next year.

However, before that the director wants to bring forth an animated series! “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.” Animated Jaegers may be the best thing I’ve heard all day. Now that we have a connection to the 2013 film, we can discuss how to connect the sequel to the third installment.

Yup, del Toro is already thinking that far ahead, and it’s going to be different than the first. “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.” Pacific Rim 2 is expected to hit theaters on April 7, 2017. The third film has not yet been given the green light, but with the outstanding success of the original it seems likely that it will hit theaters.

Del Toro has written the series The Strain this year for FX, is finishing work on The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, and is set to direct the upcoming version of Pinocchio, a horror movie, Crimson Peak, starring Charlie Hunnam and Jessica Chastain, and Hellboy 3. The guy’s a little busy.

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