Hollywood returns for a second bout of kaiju versus mecha action with Pacific Rim 2 on April 7, 2017. Director Guillermo del Toro touch based with Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision super hero blog to discuss who's back as well as the story's time  frame. 

 

“It’s not an immediate follow-up,” the director told Collider about the second movie, which will take place a number of years after the first. “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.”

He explained...

“I think that two of our main characters like in the first one are Burn [Gorman] and Charlie [Day],” he said, referring to the actors who played Dr. Hermann Gottlieb and Dr. Newton Geiszler, respectively. “They are really, really — I mean, honestly, they are probably the guys I have the most fun writing along with Hannibal Chau [Ron Perlman’s black market dealer] so just from a purely selfish drive, I like writing them.”

via Hollywood Reporter

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