The origin story will come from Eric Heisserer, best known for penning Denis Villeneuve's 2016 sci-fi film Arrival. Pacific Rim Sequel Series in Development Eddie Fu
Guillermo del Toro co-wrote the screenplay to the 2013 science fiction smash Pacific Rim, but by the time its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, hit theaters in 2016, he was no longer attached to the project. In a recent interview, the director revealed what Pacific Rim 2 would’ve looked like if he had the final say. “The villain was this tech guy that had invented basically sort of the internet 2.0. And then they realized that all his patents came to him one morning,” del Toro told TheWrap. “And so little by little, they started putting together this and they said, ‘Oh, he got them from the precursors.’ The guys that control the kaiju.” He continued, “And then we found out that the precursors are us thousands of years in the future. They’re trying to terraform, trying to re...