Pacific Rim 2 officially announced w/ release date!

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An animated series was also announced!

The sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 robots vs. aliens spectacle Pacific Rim has finally been green-lit by Legendary Pictures, and will hit theaters April 7, 2017.

BuzzFeed reports that an animated series based set in the Pacific Rim universe is also incoming, dropping at an undetermined time before the sequel and released in the USA by Universal Pictures.

Earlier on in the month, it was reported that del Toro was hard at work on a script with new collaborator Zak Penn, and he has now revealed that original co-writer Travis Beacham would also be contributing.

“The characters I love will return,” del Toro told BuzzFeed. “Raleigh, Mako, Newt, Gottlieb and who knows, maybe even Hannibal Chau – but we are taking them into a fresh territory that will display amazing sights and battles. The first film set the stage and now we’re ready to have a blast.”

del Toro has said that the film will follow on from the events of the first movie, and will focus on original heroes Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam) and Mako (Rinko Kikuchi).

This is terrific news for fans of the original. The film performed poorly at the domestic box office, leaving its future uncertain, but was saved in the international market, where it gained a massive 75% of its worldwide box office gross.

YUSS!

April 7, 2017 is a long ways away, but at least we know when it's coming now!

What do you think of the animated series?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/27/pacific-rim-2-release-date-revealed-animated-series-coming

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The first one was alright. It had great CGI, but forgettable characters, and the plot was okay. Not bad, but far from great.

That being said, I can't wait to see it.

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#3  Edited By Twentyfive

On April 7 2017, we are CANCELLING THE APOCALYPSE...(a-again)!!!!!

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#5  Edited By JakeN7

@the_tree: Ah, good ol' non-specific opinion gif. What does that mean!?

@dccomicsrule2011 said:The first one was alright. It had great CGI, but forgettable characters, and the plot was okay. Not bad, but far from great.

That being said, I can't wait to see it.

No, shaddup. It was great!

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@jaken7:

No, shaddup. It was great!

Nonsense. The characters were blander then Egg-whites.

:P

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I'll let Sheska show how I feel about this.

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Cool. Hopefully this one is actually good.

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@dccomicsrule2011: The scientists, Hannibal Chau, the Australians, and I'd even argue Idris Elba weren't. It was really just Raleigh and Mako that were terrible characters.

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#10  Edited By LimpoyzLoan

GET HYPED

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@jaken7: The writing was mediocre, leaning toward terrible, none of the characters interested me, and aside from Day and Elba, none of the actors really did it for me. I'm not somebody that can enjoy a movie for visual effects alone, so I really didn't care for Pacific Rim.

That .gif = My face when I read this news.

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@limpoyzloan: Between this and the announcement of Platinum's Legend of Korra game, the next superbestfriendcast is just going to be one big *SPLOOSH!*

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I didn't really enjoy the first one.

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@the_tree: As I said above, Mako and Raleigh were terrible, but everyone else was either fine or good. What did you want from the writing? It was a movie where giant robots punch giant monsters. C'mon.

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#17  Edited By Pharoh_Atem

@jaken7 said:

@dccomicsrule2011: The scientists, Hannibal Chau, the Australians, and I'd even argue Idris Elba weren't. It was really just Raleigh and Mako that were terrible characters.

...hence why I think the characters are bland. Idris never interested me, Raleigh and Mako were meh. And they were/the MAIN characters.

Yeah, blander then egg-whites.

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@dccomicsrule2011: Yes, but your comment seemed to refer to all the characters, when that just isn't true.

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I'M SO FCKING HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#20  Edited By Pharoh_Atem

@jaken7 said:

@dccomicsrule2011: Yes, but your comment seemed to refer to all the characters, when that just isn't true.

Actually my first comment singled out all character as forgettable (which they are). When I said, bland I meant the main characters who are the most important characters of a series. Maybe I should have been more clear.

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Why?

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#22  Edited By the_tree

@jaken7 said:

@the_tree: As I said above, Mako and Raleigh were terrible, but everyone else was either fine or good. What did you want from the writing? It was a movie where giant robots punch giant monsters. C'mon.

And the next movie will focus on Mako and Raleigh, who, as you admitted, are terrible.

If that excuses a movie from negative criticism, then we should all love Bay's Transformers movies.

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#23  Edited By JakeN7

@the_tree: Don't pretend like the writing was the only bad thing about Bayformers.

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This is how I feel in the inside when I read this. YAY!

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@xwraith said:

I'll let Sheska show how I feel about this.

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#27  Edited By the_tree

@jaken7: Much like the Transformers movies, the writing isn't the only thing wrong with Pacific Rim.

But what I'm getting at, is that we shouldn't be expected to go easy on a movie just because it's a big summer blockbuster. A key component of what makes a movie work, especially an action movie, is good characters that you can get invested in. With wooden acting and poor writing, there wasn't anyone to latch onto, so the stakes weren't really there for me. So when the Kaiju were tearing apart these giant robots, I didn't care what was happening to these people one bit.

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#28  Edited By JakeN7

@the_tree: What else is wrong with it?

Well excuse me if I went to go see a dumb giant monster movie and was satisfied when that's what I got.

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Not excited for it, but I'm not-not looking forward to it (Double negative, I know! Forgive me! >_<).

Basically because I'm a child of this generation and don't know how to describe my feelings: Meh.

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#31  Edited By the_tree

@jaken7: Well, as I stated before, the acting. Hunnam, particularly, was incredibly vanilla. That and the writing are my biggest complaints.

My other complaints, which are pretty unimportant overall but are still there, are about the action scenes: Sometimes there was action so chaotic I couldn't really tell what was going on, particularly the scene where they deployed 3(?) of the robots at the same time. Then, just when I'm excited and wanting to see a big Robot v. Kaiju battle, it gets interrupted by cutting to the boring humans, whether it be the scientists or the people at the HQ or whatever. I think I would've been happier overall if they just released a 30 minute version into theaters called "30 Minutes of Robots Fighting Monsters".

If they were to make another movie set in that canon, I would've rather had a prequel. I actually liked the opening where they're explaining the state of the world, and the part where they talked about the celebrity side of the Jaegers seemed like a way more interesting concept to follow.

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I am so freaking happy about this, I adored the first, and after Godzilla left a bad taste in my mouth I need another good monster mash

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I haven't even seen the first one

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#34  Edited By Gojira2014

How can they make a sequel? They destroyed all the Jaegers, and shut down the rift. Seriously.

I be interested in a prequel, not a sequel. I like to see some of the other Jaegers fight instead of the whole movie being Gypsy Danger vs the world.

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That is great news .

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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss! they got a trailer?

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#38  Edited By OverLordArhas

I wish they can surpass the first one.

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#39  Edited By KittyParker13

OH MY GOSH!!! Pacific Rim is my favorite movie! YES!

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Too bad Idris won't return.

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#41  Edited By TheBlueAngel93

Seriously, the first movie was awesome and I can't wait for the sequel and the animated series!!! ^__^

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THIS FO REAL?

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGMG..

NERDGASM

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@saint_wildcard: Don't listen to him it had no plot or what it did have shouldn't count as a plot, the acting was atrocious, and it's the most fanboy-pumped movie to exist and I know you have a thing against fanboys. The only thing it has is giant robots punching giant monsters which isn't nearly as great as it sounds.

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#45 rogueshadow  Moderator

I wish they'd change the characters, they fell really flat in the first movie [except for Pentecost and Chau, because, well - Elba and Perlman], and Hunnam's performance in particular fell really flat.

I did like PR, but I'd like a tighter story and better characters for the sequel on top of cool fight scenes. I'm reasonably excited for this.

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#46  Edited By JakeN7

@The_Deathstroker: It's even greater than it sounds. Why you be hatin'? As I've said before, Mako and Raleigh were the only bad characters/actors, and what else do you want from the writing? Giant robots punch giant monsters. That's the movie. Besides, the writing actually shone in places (like when Raleigh was explaining the events that led up to now, and how the Kaijus became a part of pop culture and stuff. Also, Pentecost's speech, as well as his relationship with Mako, were pretty well written in my opinion).

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I haven't even seen the first one

at least the plot is simple and easy to follow the characters are actually good. and much much better than the characters in transformers. the visuals are the most impressive surpassing any summer blockbuster.. and it had no blatant product placements like the other movies.. just give it a try..

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#48  Edited By The_Deathstroker

@jaken7: It isn't nearly as great as it sounds.

And "in my opinion" (a direct quote from you) the movie was nothing more than mediocre. The only things that stopped it from being an awful movie were Ron Pearlman and the fight scenes. That's it. That's my opinion. None of you have to agree with it.

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@The_Deathstroker: Well excuse me for not taking your opinion seriously with reasoning like that. :P

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I really hope there is an actual story here instead of nonstop fighting.