Guillermo del Toro spills details about Pacific Rim 2

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

We’ve only got about two-and-a-half years to wait until PACIFIC RIM 2 comes out, so why not start getting excited right now? Guillermo del Toro is clearly enthused about the sequel, which he’s currently talking up thanks to the home video release of “The Strain”. (Although there isn’t much that gets Guillermo enthused, jovial fellow that he is.)

In an interview with Collider, del Toro shares some intriguing details about the follow-up’s timeline:

It’s a few years after the first one. It’s not an immediate follow-up. It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after – what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It’s quite a jump.”

Let’s go out on a limb here and say the world won’t be Kaiju-free for very long…

Del Toro also lays out his plan to include more of Charlie Day and Burn Gorman’s scientist characters; additionally, he hints that the sequel will be a different beast than the first.

Yes. It’s quite a different movie from the first one in that, but I think that two of our main characters like in the first one are Burn and Charlie. They are really, really – I mean, honestly, they are probably the guys I have the most fun writing along with Hannibal Chau so just from a purely selfish drive, I like writing them. I love writing for Charlie and Burn. I mean, [Burn’s] in Crimson Peak for that reason, because I love working with him. You’re gonna get a lot of that, but the Kaijus are very different and you’re gonna see a very different type of the robots I think. It’s gonna be quite a different adventure.”

If you hadn’t already, mark your calendars now: PACIFIC RIM 2 comes out April 7, 2017.