Guillermo Del Toro explains the reason why he didn't direct Pacific Rim Uprising, the Steven S. DeKnight sequel starring John Boyega
The Big Picture Guillermo Del Toro established an expansive world in Pacific Rim, his 2013 blockbuster about humanity fighting against giant monsters using robots. After the commercial success the movie found upon its release, the studio behind it was eager to start developing a sequel.
We were getting ready to do it, it was different from the first, but it had a continuation of many of the things that I was trying to do. Then what happened is—I mean, this is why life’s crazy, right?—they had to give a deposit for the stages at 5pm or we would lose the stages in Toronto for many months. So, I said, “Don't forget we're gonna lose the stages,” and five o'clock came and went, and we lost the stages. They said, “Well, we can shoot it in China.
In Pacific Rim Uprising, Jake Pentecost is stuck in a complicated situation ten years after the events of the first movie. He spends his time stealing abandoned Jaeger technology to sell it on the black market, and when he's finally trapped by the authorities, Mako Mori tries to recruit him at the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. But a deep conspiracy would reveal that Dr.
The Legacy of 'Pacific Rim' While Del Toro went to direct his wildly successful romantic drama film, The Shape of Water, Pacific Rim Uprising only managed to earn around $290 million at the worldwide box office. Given it how performed considerably worse than its predecessor, it remains as the latest installment the franchise has managed to produce.
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