Pacific Rim: Uprising | March 23, 2018 | Steven S. DeKnight (Starz' Spartacus, Marvel's Daredevil) directing | John Boyega. Scott Eastwood joins as co-lead | Tag All Spoilers!

[MrGlass2]

3 hours ago, Arlborn said:

Should have kept GDT.

I hope GDT doesn't feel too bad about not directing the PR sequel...

 

[Sam]

I watched it. It’s not bad. Serviceable, just like the first one was. 

[Zakiyyah6]

13 hours ago, svenson said:

Should have released this earlier like in 2015. 

That was impossible because they had to find a studio that was willing to help make and release a Pacific Rim 2. It wasn't a hit so nobody was clamoring to make the sequel.

[dudalb]

2 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

That was impossible because they had to find a studio that was willing to help make and release a Pacific Rim 2. It wasn't a hit so nobody was clamoring to make the sequel.

The story I read...and I make no claim as to how accurate it is...is that the film got greenlit only after GDT left the project,since the Budget GDT wanted was a lot more than any studio was willing to risk on a borderline sequel,and after GDT walked away they got the budget down to a figure the they could find a partner for.

Edited April 2, 2018 by dudalb

[dudalb]

2 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

That was impossible because they had to find a studio that was willing to help make and release a Pacific Rim 2. It wasn't a hit so nobody was clamoring to make the sequel.

It was a surprise to most of the industry when a sequel was greenlit.

[Horner]

7 minutes ago, dudalb said:

The story I read...and I make no claim as to how accurate it is...is that the film got greenlit only after GDT left the project,since the Budget GDT wanted was a lot more than any studio was willing to risk on a borderline sequel,and after GDT walked away they got the budget down to a figure the they could find a partner for.

 

I thought that was the story behind him not directing Hellboy 3?

[dudalb]

5 minutes ago, Horner said:

 

I thought that was the story behind him not directing Hellboy 3?

"The Mountains of Madness" was killed by GDT when could not get a 200 Million budget for it. There is a definent pattern of Del Toro walking away from a project if he could get the budget he wanted.

Edited April 2, 2018 by dudalb

[Arlborn]

9 minutes ago, Horner said:

 

I thought that was the story behind him not directing Hellboy 3?

GDT's projects tend to end up being too expensive for executives to green-light and he hardly ever backs down regarding budgets apparently. Which makes sense I guess considering that he's known for his interesting visuals.

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Arlborn

[Bishop54]

It's passion projects like PRU that got Thomas Tull removed from his roost at Legendary. 

[NoobSaibot]

On 4/1/2018 at 5:30 PM, AJG said:

 

I have never seen a child with a Pacific Rim toy in my life, honestly I didn’t think PR even had merchandise.

I've seen kids wear shirts, but yeah, no toys.

[JGAR4LIFE]

I'm actually kind of glad it flopped

[KeepItU25071906]

Inside the mind of @dneg’s Pacific Rim: Uprising animation director, at @vfxblog https://t.co/woX3d7dSFn pic.twitter.com/OEB7wcdHg9

— Ian Failes (@vfxblog) 9 апреля 2018 г.

[KeepItU25071906]

DNeg made 1059 of 1598 vfx-shots in the movie.

[kaijukurt]

1 hour ago, KeepItU25071906 said:

DNeg made 1059 of 1598 vfx-shots in the movie.

 

Remember when ILM/Weta were THE VFX houses?

 

Pretty glad to see a lot of VFX companies like DNeg & MPC putting out some quality work nowadays. 

[KeepItU25071906]

1 hour ago, kaijukurt said:

Pretty glad to see a lot of VFX companies like DNeg & MPC putting out some quality work nowadays. 

Thanx to Harry Potter. Framestore, Dneg, MPC and Cinesite raised working on it.

Edited May 4, 2018 by KeepItU25071906

[Eric Duncan]