Sometime this year, Netflix will release Pacific Rim: The Black, an original anime expanding upon the two movies. ![]() Of course, Pacific Rim isn't entirely finished just yet, though it will continue on in a different medium. In that sense, it's especially disappointing that a world with so much potential has to be cut short because of money. It seems more likely that the lack of a Pacific Rim 3 isn't due to story problems, but because of behind the scenes matters like box office returns. The ending of Pacific Rim: Uprising left some threads dangling, and DeKnight also hinted fan favorite character Mako Mori's (Kikuchi) storyline is incomplete. This will surely come as a disappointment for Pacific Rim fans, particularly since it looked like there was a lot more story to tell within this world. In fact, he has no plans at the moment to revisit Pacific Rim, writing, " Talking only as a fan BTW - NO plans to return." After sharing his interest in seeing a Pacific Rim and MonsterVerse (which houses Legendary's Godzilla and Kong movies) crossover on social media, del Toro clarified that this is not an idea for a third movie. Now del Toro has commented on the matter, and his words leave little in question. Related: Pacific Rim 3 Updates: Will A Kaiju Sequel Happen? DeKnight (who took over from del Toro) hinted at story ideas for a third Pacific Rim, saying it would be about " g etting the band back together." Even then, though, he admitted he didn't know what would happen with Pacific Rim 3. In the months following Pacific Rim: Uprising's release, director Steven S. As a result, it soon became unclear if the Pacific Rim franchise would earn a third installment. Pacific Rim: Uprising garnered a more mixed response from critics and audiences, and it struggled to match its predecessor in terms of box office returns. A sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising, was released five years later and starred John Boyega. Though not an overwhelming box office success, Pacific Rim performed reasonably well and earned positive reviews from audiences. It starred Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, and Idris Elba. Acclaimed director del Toro broke into the monster blockbuster realm in 2013 with Pacific Rim, an original sci-fi tale that introduced the concept of Jaegers, giant robots controlled by two human pilots fighting a war against the Kaiju. Read the whole review at years after the second installment, Guillermo del Toro insists he has no plans for a Pacific Rim 3. That isn't to say this is a better film than its predecessor-I don't think I'd go that far as del Toro still enlisted a fun enough tone and built an entire world from which Uprising benefits-and Uprising maybe complicates things a little too much with its story whereas that initial film was so cut and dry in that aspect it was almost shocking, but the important thing is that Uprising is a fun if not ultimately forgettable slice of entertainment that plays to its B-movie strengths. Meaning, while the first Pacific Rim was a little too self-serious given its story and a little more moody than might have been necessary, while more visually detailed to be sure, Uprising plays things a little more straight-forward and is exactly the kind of movie I would have loved when I was seven or eight years-old it's big, it's colorful, and it has robots fighting robots and robots fighting monsters. ![]() Uprising jumps a decade into the future and intends to reboot Pacific Rim the opposite way that Power Rangers movie did the original series last year. Of course, with this kind of sophomore slump effect weighing on the decision of whether or not to even continue the would-be franchise this second installment has come to us not from "visionary" and now Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro nor does it star Charlie Hunnam or Idris Elba, but instead is co-written and directed by Netflix's Daredevil season one showrunner Steven DeKnight and enlists the fresh talent of Star Wars-breakout John Boyega as the son of Elba's fallen character from the first film. Pacific Rim: Uprising is a five year-later sequel that no one in particular was necessarily looking for, but is here given the amount of dough that original ended up making in China ($411 million globally on a $190 million budget, $111 of which came from China-almost $10 million more than the film made domestically). This is to say that Uprising is so bombastically cheesy in its reliance on knowing exactly what it is and delivering on exactly what it promises that it's genuinely hard to fault the film for doing what it sells itself to be. This year, with Pacific Rim: Uprising what we have is what that movie might have been had it decided to go another route and play up the more cartoonish aspects of that super hero series. A year ago on this weekend a reboot of the nineties hit show Power Rangers was released and embraced a more moody and grounded tone than that of its source material.
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