Guillermo del Toro Talks 'Pacific Rim 2'

By now we know of Guillermo del Toro's plans of making Pacific Rim 2 from comments he made more than a month ago, but there is very little known as to where the film is going other than it will be very different from the first. The director has now given more insight as to what we should expect for Pacific Rim 2, and also some of the familiar faces we might see returning for the sequel.

While talking to Collider during the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Strain season 1, del Toro revealed that Pacific Rim 2 will take place some years after the first movie looking at a world without the Kaiju threat, adding that familiar characters Geiszler (Charlie Day) and Gottlieb (Burn Gorman) would be returning. These were del Toro's comments:

"It's a few years after the first one.  It's not an immediate follow-up.  It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after – what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat.  It’s quite a jump." 

"It's quite a different movie from the first one in that, but I think that two of our main characters like in the first one are Burn and Charlie.  They are really, really – I mean, honestly, they are probably the guys I have the most fun writing along with Hannibal Chau so just from a purely selfish drive, I like writing them.  I love writing for Charlie and Burn.  I mean, [Burn's] in Crimson Peak for that reason, because I love working with him.  You're gonna get a lot of that, but the Kaijus are very different and you're gonna see a very different type of the robots I think.  It's gonna be quite a different adventure."

I like these comments from del Toro, they really show me that his creativity is flowing to get Pacific Rim 2 going and that he has an idea in place to where the story is going. It would be interesting to see that world handling not being under attack by the Kaiju, but you have to assume that at some point the threat will be back, and like del Toro said in his comments, seeing different Kaijus and Jaegers. Pacific Rim 2 is still a while away, so we will have to settle for insight from the people involved until we can see material from the film when production starts.