Um Anspruch geht es mir dabei nicht, aber die Story fand ich halt nicht kurzweilig, sondern aufgebläht und vollständig austauschbar, was unter anderem an den Charakteren lag. Da hatte die ganze Dramatik um seinen Bruder der gestorben war und die Vergangenheit der kleinen Asiatin usw. überhaupt keine Relevanz. Also in meinen Augen pseudodramatisch.

.... Legendary Pictures has yet to give "Pacific Rim 2" the green light but Legendary CEO Thomas Tull previously said: "It did north of $400 million globally and both the home video sales and the merchandise have way over-indexed, so it seems like fans really loved the world. So we're going to sit down with Guillermo and as long as we think it's authentic and there's something to say, we're certainly open to it."

Regarding the storyline, Del Toro said that Jaeger pilots Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) and Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi) will return. "Some people were wondering if we were going to do the prequel," he explained. "I was never interested in doing that first wave of invasion. I"m going for very new, very crazy ideas on the second one, which are very different from the first one — but you will get really great spectacle."