Guillermo del Toro talks Pacific Rim 2 and 3
Guillermo del Toro is a very busy guy these days, as he is hard at work on the second Pacific Rim movie which is set for a 7th April 2017 release.
Recently, del Toro talked about the second movie which is scheduled to begin filming in February of next year. During a conversation with Collider, del Toro talks about how Pacific Rim 2 will be different to the first movie but will tie in closer to the expected third movie. It's worth noting, Pacific Rim 3 has been rumoured to have been wrote but has yet to be officially announced as happening.
Here's what del Toro told Collider about Pacific Rim 2;
"We got the first draft of the movie now, and we are going to spend another 4-5 months on the screenplay before we start pre-production. We start pre-production next year in August-September and start shooting November-December next year."
It sounds like there will be a more direct tie between Pacific Rim 2 and Pacific Rim 3. The filmmaker teased;
"The direction we’re going is very different from the first. Some of your favourite characters come back, some others don’t because we have decided that we’re going to shoot ambitiously and say ‘Let’s hope we have three movies.’ So some characters come in at the end of the second, hoping that it will ramp up on the third one."
