Del Toro: PACIFIC RIM 2 Is Being Written, No Greenlight Yet
There were a lot of mixed reactions upon last year’s release of director Guillermo del Toro‘s most recent robo-juggernaut vs. monster spectacle, Pacific Rim. The film did okay at the box office, but not great, so the chance of a sequel remained a bit blurry thereafter. And yes, they still are, although that hasn’t stopped del Toro from doing his best to put a new script together for the sequel with screenwriter Zak Penn. “I’m working very, very hard with Zak Penn,” del Toro says. “We’ve been working for a few months now in secret. We found a way to twist it around. Travis Beacham was involved in the storyline and now I’m writing with Zak because Travis has become a TV mogul.” Beacham previously worked on the first film which starred Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi as futuristic synchronized pilots of armed robot vehicles called Jaegers in a devastating […]