A recent twitter exchange between directors Steven S. DeKnight and James Gunn has revealed a clue about a
Pacific Rim 2 casting addition. While commenting on his excitement to view Gunn's
The Belko Experiment, DeKnight revealed that one of the leads in the film is actually in Universal and Legendary's kaiju vs giant-mecha sequel. That means either John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Josh Brener, Michael Rooker, Sean Gunn or Melonie Diaz are joining John Ridley and
(possibly) Scott Eastwood in the February 23, 2018 release.
DEVELOPMENT
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.
Initally, 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.