It has been confirmed that the "Pacific Rim 2" movie will start filming this November.
Global News reported that director Guillermo del Toro has revealed that he will begin shooting the robot action flick later this year. The filming will be held mostly at Pinewood Toronto Studios on November until 2016.
"Pacific Rim" was filmed in Toronto from Nov. 2011 until Apr. 2012 with nearly $200 million as budget. The first movie was released in Jul. 2013 which earned about $411 million. The futuristic movie followed pilots controlling huge robots, named Jaegers, to battle Kaiju monsters that emerged from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
At San Diego Comic-Con, del Toro revealed that "Pacific Rim 2" movie is set a few years after the events of the original film and will focus on the Kaiju monsters. The director made the announcement while he promoted his gothic horror flick "Crimson Peak" which is slated for release this year on Oct. 16.
Guillermo del Toro partnered with Travis Beacham again as well as Zak Penn, who previously worked on "X-Men: The Last Stand," to write the script. "Pacific Rim 2" movie is scheduled for release on Aug. 4, 2017. The sequel will reportedly be named "Maelstrom."
"We have an epic battle at the end [that] we started designing a couple weeks ago," del Toro said about the sequel's massive ending.
With the focus more on Kaijus, this might mean that after being presumably banished back to where they came from at the bottom of the ocean, these monsters could have found a way to come back to the Earth's surface.
There are strong indications that Charlie Day's Kaiju obsessed Dr. Newton Geiszler and Burn Gorman's Gottlieb might return for "Pacific Rim 2" movie. However, it is unclear whether Jaeger pilots Charlie Hunnam's Raleigh Beckett and Rinko Kikuchi's Mako Mori will be back for the sequel.
