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!

[AJG]

I think PR was massive on OnDemand. It was literally listed under "New" on the main menu of Time Warner Cable's OnDemand channel for *months.*

Time Warner you say....I wonder who distributed that movie......

[PDC1987]

Time Warner you say....I wonder who distributed that movie......

Nice try.

 

Not all WB films are still there months later.

[Neo]

hell yeah! Warner Brothers is desperate though for a franchise. 

Universal.

 

[PDC1987]

You guys also have to take into account Merchandising which Pacific Rim lends itself to very very well (and I suspect is the main reason for the animated show).

 

It's the same reason Cars keeps getting sequels despite not being Pixar's most successful property box-office wise (or critically). It makes a ridiculous amount of money from all the toys and crap sold.

PR only had the comparably more expensive, adult collector-oriented NECA Toys though.

[Chewy]

Pacific Rim wasn't particularly big on home media, and it's certainly not some merchandising giant. GDT wants to make the sequel, and apparently Legendary wants to keep him happy. I don't think there's much more to this than that

[Bishop54]

Very risky move by Legendary but one I'm excited for. However, Tull green lighting all these passion projects may end up bankrupting the company, or at least costing him his job.

[Claire of Themyscira]

This is big online though.

 

I never realized how much Tumblr loved PR until I was gushing over Godzilla.

[Heat Vision]

Good move by keeping it away from a summer release. Especially in 2017.

 

Hope we see Gipsy as a Mark V now and maybe Cherno Alpha back and badder than ever. I hope they don't do Kaiju/Jaeger hybrids. No need to fix something that isn't broken.

[Neo]

Very risky move by Legendary but one I'm excited for. However, Tull green lighting all these passion projects may end up bankrupting the company, or at least costing him his job.

Nah.

[Plain Old Tele]

I don't think this is even particularly risky. Legendary is clearly looking at a bigger picture here, where they can use PR to drive ancillary products like the animated series. The only danger would be a sequel with a hugely ballooning budget, and I doubt that'll happen.

[darkelf]

If they do manage to scale back to $120-130M range, they should be well in the black

[Gopher]

Make Charlie Hunnam a supporting role and bring in a charismatic A-lister or two. Then you'll outgross the original. 

 

But I was one of Pac Rim's biggest champions last summer so this is very surprising and welcoming news. 

[Heat Vision]

If they do manage to scale back to $120-130M range, they should be well in the black

 

I say 150 million would be a nice budget for the sequel. Not to mention I see more human development this time around.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Wait, animated television show????

[Fancyarcher]

Wait, animated television show????

 

Yup. Del Toro confirmed that there's one in the works. Kinda awesome isn't it?

[Heat Vision]

Make Charlie Hunnam a supporting role and bring in a charismatic A-lister or two. Then you'll outgross the original. 

 

But I was one of Pac Rim's biggest champions last summer so this is very surprising and welcoming news. 

 

Why? I thought Hunnam did fine. Of course he will most likely take Stacker Pentecost's place in the sequel so he might move to supporting after all.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Yup. Del Toro confirmed that there's one in the works. Kinda awesome isn't it?

NOW my day is made.

[ZappBrannigan]

So this is definitely a sequel and not a prequel? Ah well, I would have liked to have seen Elba take the lead and tell his story before the first movie since he was the only actor in PR worth a damn.

[Heat Vision]

So this is definitely a sequel and not a prequel? Ah well, I would have liked to have seen Elba take the lead and tell his story before the first movie since he was the only actor in PR worth a damn.

 

I think his story along with the early pilots would have been interesting and has unlimited potential. From the early Kaijus & Jaegers, getting cancer from nuclear exposure and more.

[SpiderByte]

So this is definitely a sequel and not a prequel? Ah well, I would have liked to have seen Elba take the lead and tell his story before the first movie since he was the only actor in PR worth a damn.

That might be what the animated show is about.