They should make a movie about how this movie gets made.
There has been a range of issues in getting the sequel to Pacific Rim going, which includes the whole shift of studio for Legendary from Warner Bros., where they made the first, to Universal Pictures, who are wary of big budget productions. While the film previously saw its spot on the 2017 calendar removed and pre-production halted last year, writer/director Guillermo del Toro has continually said that the film is not dead and that he’s pushing hard for it among the large slate of projects that he’s involved in.
Now things have taken an intriguing turn as Deadline is reporting that Steven S. DeKnight has taken over as the director for the film. DeKnight has a huge resume of projects he’s worked on over the years, largely in TV, and got a lot of acclaim for stepping in and handling Daredevil. He was also the creator behind Spartacus, which in its first season was simply amazing.
DeKnight’s boadring the project that will have a script from Jon Spaights, whose script for Doctor Strange is currently being filmed. Details as to what it will be about are certainly fluid now that a new director has stepped into the seat, but del Toro previously stated that the film would pick up years after the first and that most everyone who lived at the end of the first would come back for more.