A few years old, but I found this interesting about the sequel Del Toro wanted to make.
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It also helps explain why Uprising was such a fucking disaster: Four people worked on rewriting his script, the director chosen was too inexperienced, and it was a literal case of "too many cooks in the kitchen".
Aside from at least Mako returning as a main character (not being unceremoniously sidelined and killed off for the "next generation"), and the original lead returning too and not being "sorta-killed-but-maybe-not" (tl;dr: Uprising couldn't get him back, so they decided to pull a Will Smith with Independence Day: Resurgence by having him die off-screen by cancer, which Mako survived, all because of their trip into the other universe, but then they changed their mind near the end of production, so his fate is ambiguous now)... the interesting part?
The aliens, the Precursors, were us thousands of years in the future. They were paradoxically trying to harvest and colonize the past Earth, even back in primordial times, for resources and so they could survive. Their alien appearance? Yeah, biomechanical suits, ala Independence Day.
It's intriguing to look at what could've been, even if you dislike the developments personally.
Guillermo del Toro shares his paradoxical vision for a 'Pacific Rim' sequel that never happened
Guillermo del Toro's directing career is notoriously riddled with unmade film projects — from his take on The Hobbit to a remake of The Fantastic Voyage to an adaptation of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.
Pacific Rim 2
"From now until April 2017, we're going to develop a new animated series for Pacific Rim, continue the comic book series that started with Year Zero, and most importantly, creating a sequel for the film. I'm working on this with Zak Penn and Travis Beacham. And we are all very happy to be...
pacificrim.fandom.com
It also helps explain why Uprising was such a fucking disaster: Four people worked on rewriting his script, the director chosen was too inexperienced, and it was a literal case of "too many cooks in the kitchen".
Aside from at least Mako returning as a main character (not being unceremoniously sidelined and killed off for the "next generation"), and the original lead returning too and not being "sorta-killed-but-maybe-not" (tl;dr: Uprising couldn't get him back, so they decided to pull a Will Smith with Independence Day: Resurgence by having him die off-screen by cancer, which Mako survived, all because of their trip into the other universe, but then they changed their mind near the end of production, so his fate is ambiguous now)... the interesting part?
The aliens, the Precursors, were us thousands of years in the future. They were paradoxically trying to harvest and colonize the past Earth, even back in primordial times, for resources and so they could survive. Their alien appearance? Yeah, biomechanical suits, ala Independence Day.
It's intriguing to look at what could've been, even if you dislike the developments personally.
