Pacific Rim: Uprising was set 10 years after the first film, and chronicled the adventures of Stacker Pentecost s son, Jake (John Boyega) and a young Jaeger enthusiast named Amara (Cailee Spaeny) as they uncovered a Kaiju conspiracy triggered by the monstrous precursors, who planned to stage a terraforming invasion and colonization of Earth via a drift link with scientist Newt Geiszler (Charlie Day).
That film ended with Jake Pentecost promising that, after winning another victory, humanity would be taking the fight directly to the Precursors, setting the stage for a kind of cross-dimensional battle. It s not clear how that would have eventually forged a connection to Godzilla, but in later tweets DeKnight also explained that, because
Pacific Rim 3 Was Going To Connect To The MonsterVerse
Pacific Rim arriving in theaters just ten months before Gareth Edwards’
Godzilla kicked off the MonsterVerse. Both movies faced very different fates, though, with the former only saved from box office disaster by a strong showing in China, while the King of the Monsters’ return raked in almost $530 million globally.
The second installments, meanwhile, doomed one franchise, while reaffirming the popularity of the other. Steven S. DeKnight’s
Pacific Rim: Uprising wound up hugely underperforming and just about squeaked past $290 million, a poor number for a blockbuster sequel armed with a budget rumored to be hovering around $175 million. Meanwhile, Jordan Vogt-Roberts’
The world of Pacific Rim was first brought to life thanks to the legendary director Guillermo Del Toro who established a universe on the silver screen that focused on giant robots fighting on the side of humanity against a number of rampaging kaiju, and Netflix is producing a new anime series [.]
All Main Characters From Enola Holmes Reportedly Returning For Sequel
One of the very few enterprises to have benefited from just how long the Coronavirus pandemic has dragged on for are the various streaming services, with subscriber numbers steadily rising throughout 2020 as the majority of theaters around the world remained closed. It also saw Hollywood’s biggest studios sell off some major titles, and the multitude of subscription-based platforms were happy to pick them up.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 was developed at Paramount before being sold to Netflix, while Sacha Baron Cohen took