Guillermo del Toro didn't direct Pacific Rim: Uprising because of a clerical error

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The Pan's Labyrinth director hasn't even watched the sequel to his 2013 blockbuster

Hollywood isn’t all glitz and glam. It’s a business, staffed by human beings who sometimes forget to cross their t’s and dot their i’s. Those mistakes can be catastrophic, like neglecting to pay your actors and writers a living wage, or they can be relatively small things that spin out into very, very large things, like when a staffer missed a payment for a Toronto soundstage and ended up sinking an entire franchise.

“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.’ And I go, ‘What do you mean, we? I’ve gotta go do Shape of Water.’” While The Shape Of Water, a film about a human falling in love with a monster, went on to net del Toro an Oscar for Best Picture, Pacific Rim: Uprising—a pretty empty, Steven S.

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