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!

[NoobSaibot]

Still not feeling excited about this. A sequel never needed to be made. The first film had a conclusive ending with a nice bow on top.

 

The teaser did not help with that. Also....Ellen McLain? Really?

Edited July 21, 2017 by NoobSaibot

[Cookson]

They have obviously cut the budget for this film down dramatically from the first. Wouldn't be surprised if this was made for less than Power Rangers.

[dudalb]

That this would have a much more modest budget then the first film was no secret.

My own hopes for this film pretty much died when I heard that Del Toro was pretty much out except for a courtesy "Executive Producer" title.

 

[Jonwo]

4 minutes ago, dudalb said:

That this would have a much more modest budget then the first film was no secret.

My own hopes for this film pretty much died when I heard that Del Toro was pretty much out except for a courtesy "Executive Producer" title.

 

I'm guess with Tull no longer at Legendary, they've decided to slash the budget.

[dudalb]

2 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

I'm guess with Tull no longer at Legendary, they've decided to slash the budget.

Maybe, but before Tull left the announced budget was much smaller then the first PR.

For the record, the reaction of much of the industry was WTF when they heard a sequel had been greenlit. The first film managed to squeak into profit, but mant thought legendary was really pushing its luck with a sequel.

[Arlborn]

Felt more like a teaser for a teaser. Will be waiting for an actual trailer to really voice an opinion.

[Ethan Hunt]

The teaser is super good

[Maxmoser3]

This could go either way. But John Boyega outside of Star Wars is poison. 

[dashrendar44]

Now I wish Boyega was the hero of the first PR alongside Kikuchi, he would have been much charismatic as a lead. Thus, facing Elba as a cocky Maverick-type pilot having to learn to be more humble and less reckless would have been interesting in terms of character dynamics even if cliche as hell, part surrogate dad/mentor while keeping him away from getting romantically invested with Kikuchi to not compromise their mission.

 

 

Edited July 23, 2017 by dashrendar44

[kayumanggi]

Innovation could mean lighter but stronger and faster robots. No?

 

I liked the teaser.

[kayumanggi]

[ZeeSoh]

What a horrible trailer. Would have been much better if they had released an actual trailer rather than this video game teaser. Reception online is not that great

[Ryan Reynolds]

who asked for this? seems  like a flop domestic

[fmpro]

Horrible horrible teaser

[a2k]

Felt like they were focused more on selling the merchandiizing aspect. Like with TF toys I can see Pac Rim robots becoming a huge sell.

[Gavin Feng]

This project may never exist before Wanda invested it. I was hoping it would replace TF series in China, but now I think PR2 could be the next TF5 here.

[That One Girl]

lol they wanna go up against Ready Player One.  good luck.

 

 

[grim22]

 

[filmlover]

8 minutes ago, That Floating Guy said:

lol they wanna go up against Ready Player One.  good luck.

 

 

It was gonna face the second weekend of Black Panther in its original spot. I'm guessing Robin Hood is moving now.

[Jonwo]

It's still going to get killed either way being released the week before Ready Player One. Robin Hood I suspect will move to either February or August