The Apocalypse has been cancelled...again! Filming on Pacific Rim: Uprising has wrapped per John Boyega's Instagram account. Filming lasted for six months according to Boyega's post. One has to wonder how much downtime he'll have before LucasFilm and Disney start rolling cameras on Episode IX? That is, if Finn survives Star Wars: The Last Jedi...
The sequel will follow Boyega's Jake Pentecost, the son of Idris Elba's Stacker Pentecost, in a post-war era after the allied forces achieved victory over the dimension-breaching kaiju. However, there's still something to fight it seems as Boyega and Scott Eastwood's Nate Lambert are playing "ace jaeger pilots."
ABOUT PACIFIC RIM 2
Though Pacific Rim 2 was initially removed from Universal's release schedule, development on the project continued and the film received a new release date of February 23, 2018. Guillermo del Toro will step aside to let Daredevil showrunner Steven S. DeKnight sit in the director's chair and screenwriter Travis Beacham has made room for Zak Penn, Jon Spaihts and Derek Connollt (Jurassic World, Kong: Skull Island) to write the sequel.
Initially, del Toro's ambitious plans for his budding franchise included comic books, anime and video game tie-ins. A single-player fighting game was released to generally negative reviews for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in 2013. A prequel graphic novel Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero was written by Beacham and released in 2013.