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05-21-2013, 12:07 AM | #1 |
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Entertainment Weekly has posted a new article about the upcoming Pacific Rim movie, due out this summer! They spoke with director Guillermo del Toro, and fortunately, while he did reveal some elements of the plot, he did so without giving everything away. We brought you news of a Pacific Rim Sequel back in January, but did you know it was already greenlit? Here's why and then some...
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Director Guillermo del Toro’s giant-robots giant-robots-versus-giant-monsters sci-fi action epic Pacific Rim won’t stomp into theaters until July 12, but the film’s backers already see its franchise potential as, well, giant—so much so that a sequel was greenlit before the movie was finished. After the first screening, Legendary Entertainment CEO Thomas Tull immediately told del Toro to start writing a follow-up. “He said, ‘Do you think you can come up with a great idea?’ ” del Toro remembers. “I said, ‘F—, yeah!’ ! Because on the way to the finished screenplay, there were entire angles and ideas that we chopped off because they were too much.”
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Instead, del Toro and co-writer Travis Beacham plan to delve deeper into the alien forces behind the kaiju (Japanese for “giant monsters”), who in the first film invade Earth from their so-called “antiverse” through a breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, only to be met by a last stand of human defenders (including Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam). “They’re a race of blind consumers grabbing planets, consuming them, and moving to the next,” says del Toro. “The idea [with the sequel] is to explore a little bit of that. I won’t spoil it, but I don’t think we’ll repeat a single beat from the first movie.”
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05-21-2013, 12:13 AM | #2 |
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Can't wait for this movie.
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05-21-2013, 12:13 AM | #3 |
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Shouldn't they wait until the first one atleast has an opening weekend
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05-21-2013, 10:35 AM | #4 |
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Nah. The marketing and brand building potential here is crazy high. There is potential for a crazy amount of merch here as well.
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05-21-2013, 11:28 AM | #5 |
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05-21-2013, 11:33 AM | #6 |
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Admittedly when I saw the 1st trailer I wasn't thinking much of this property, but seeing how much the creators are putting into it, I'm looking forward to it now.
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05-21-2013, 11:45 AM | #7 |
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Cannot wait for this one... it's daikaiju versus super robots on the big screen, WWWYKI!
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05-21-2013, 01:09 PM | #8 |
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Exploring the aliens and kaiju really shows how much thought they are putting into the franchise.
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