Master filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has revealed this week that he has been working for months on a script for a sequel to blockbuster PACIFIC RIM. It seems that, along with screenwriter Zak Penn, del Toro has found a way to make a possible sequel work for him – and the current script is said to include Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori, played by Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi in the first film.
Here’s what del Toro had to say on the script during his promotional tour of The Strain:
“I’m working very, very hard with Zak Penn. We’ve been working for a few months now in secret. We found a way to twist it around. Travis Beacham [co-writer of the first film] was involved in the storyline and now I’m writing with Zak because Travis has become a TV mogul.”
With speculation that perhaps the second film would in fact be a prequel and something of an origins story, del Toro was quick to clarify that this aspect never interested him. “I was never interested in doing that first wave of invasion. I’m going for very new, very crazy ideas on the second one, which are very different from the first one — but you will get really great spectacle.”
With del Toro, “spectacle” is practically guaranteed.
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Source: Collider
