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Out of left-field

Legendary Pictures has set Steven S. DeKnight to direct Pacific Rim 2, the follow-up to Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham’s 2013 epic action-adventure film. The current script was written by Jon Spaihts based on characters created by Beacham and del Toro. Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, del Toro, and Mary Parent are producing and Jillian Share will be executive producer. Universal Pictures will release the film worldwide in 3D.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/pacific...ndary-pictures-guillermo-del-toro-1201708221/

 

[xxracerxx]

Pardon?

 

[Neoxon]

Huh, neat.

 

[EatinOlives]

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[Count Dookkake]

Who?

 

[Kalentan]

Pacific Rim 2 "Hallway Fight" confirmed?

 

[RoboPlato]

No Del Torro?

 

[Discotheque]

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not like the first movie was good anyways. this is a weird ass choice but whatever. might be alright, might be bad who knows.

at least they changed writers.

 

[Sojgat]

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

From Daredevil to this.

Interesting.

 

[The Outsider]

No GDT!?

Well, DeKnight is awesome too. I'll be glad if this actually gets made one way or another.

 

[Kevinroc]

Who?

Guy who was the showrunner of the first season of Marvel/Netflix Daredevil after Drew Goddard left.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

no

 

[FUBAR McDangles]

Daredevil was good.

But Spartacus was fantastic. Excited for PR2.

 

[Walker_Boh]

Wasn't this movie cancelled last year?

 

[Ashodin]

I don't give a fuck, this shit is happening finally and I"M STOOOOOOOOOOKED

 

[Platy]

But ... I want awesome care in design for robots that will only appear for 2 minutes ! =(

 

[Moaradin]

He did Spartacus so he's alright with me.

 

[ramoisdead]

Man, Del Toro is cursed. =[

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Not surprised. Del Toro always has like 5 projects going on at once.

He can't direct them all.

 

[- J - D -]

He directed the Daredevil s1 finale. :/

 

[Sliver]

Cool, better than having GDT waste his time on it. First was such a bore.

 

[matrix-cat]

Del Toro's strengths are not in directing and especially not in writing, so I'm fine with this.

 

[jb1234]

It's not the director that's going to make this movie, it's the script. Fortunately, Jon Spaihts is a great writer so I'm hopeful.

(Pacific Rim was a guilty pleasure.)

 

[LycanXIII]

Is Del Toro still involved at least?

 

[jackdoe]

I guess a showrunner is kind of like a director, so hopefully this isn't a mess. I'm not getting my hopes up though.

 

[titiklabingapat]

I'll believe it when I see it. This movie seems like its been in pre-production purgatory in forever and I don;t expect that to change anytime soon.

 

[Geist-]

No movie credits whatsoever, but was an executive producer on Daredevil. Don't know how to feel, but I'm not confident.

 

[Premium Quality]

Was hoping GDT would have directed it, but this is still awesome news. Can't wait!

 

[Jarmel]

What the fuck?

How the fuck did this happen?

 

[jabuseika]

Nope.

Spoiler

Maybe.

 

[Sephzilla]

What?

 

[HoodWinked]

pacific rim is del toro's pet project but DeKnight is god tier. heartbreaking for del toro but i think the product will be much more sophisticated and awesome with another director.

del toro is still a producer probably even PGA so seems like del toro fans shouldnt get too upset.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

Whoa, nice! I hope he's up to the challenge...

 

[Discotheque]

It's not the director that's going to make this movie, it's the script. Fortunately, Jon Spaihts is a great writer so I'm hopeful.

(Pacific Rim was a guilty pleasure.)

is he a good writer? he's the in thing with studios right now but we've only seen 2 of his movies so far and they've both been absolutely shit.

we'll see when doctor strange and passengers is out.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

This is better than I expected.

 

[bangbang i'm a timpani]

Del Toro's strengths are not in directing and especially not in writing, so I'm fine with this.

......wtf?

 

[Cerium]

Fascinating.

Will there still be Mecha-Kaiju? I hope they keep that from the old script.

 

[Chichikov]

Well, the problems I had with the first one were mostly about the script, so what really matter is that they have a new writer.
Hmmm, I don't know this Jon Spaihts guy, to the google machine -

Prometheus (written by)
The Darkest Hour (screenplay) / (story)

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Error]

Where's my Godzilla x Pacific Rim movie?

 

[BronsonLee]

OOOOOOOOOOH

 

[harSon]

from the writer of the darkest hour and prometheus

 

[WyndhamPrice]

Spartacus was a cheesy, self-serious, live-action cartoon so that fits perfectly with Pacific Rim.

 

[Jarmel]

How did Del Toro get knocked off his own pet project? What the fuck.

 

[torre_avenue]

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING GDT?

ON ONE HAND, PACIFIC RIM LIVES!

ON THE OTHER, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN US GDT? ARE YOU DOING SOMETHING WITH KOJIMA? DORMANT HILLOCKS OVER MECHA BATTLES WITH MECHA KAIJU?

I FEEL SO CONFLICTED.

 

[jabuseika]

Del Toro's strengths are not in directing and especially not in writing, so I'm fine with this.

You might want to get checked out.

Should I mention his Writer awards? Including an Oscar nomination and several Saturn's.

 

[Shadow2222]

After Spartacus and Daredevil, I'm definitely excited to see what he can do with a feature film.

 

[meltingparappa]

1) I didn't know this was still alive.

2) There is very little Del Toro in that announcement.

On a conceptual level anyone can make a giant robot film, but will any of these people lovingly indulge the same eccentricities Del Toro did.

Bracing myself for it to feel like a fan film.

 

[Malo]

I'm okay with this.

 

[Dan]

...

wut?