Del Toro reveals why he didn’t direct Pacific Rim 2 | Atomics

director Pacific Rim, Guillermo del ToroHe revealed incredible reasons why he didn’t manage Pacific Rim 2. During an interview with Collider, the renowned filmmaker revealed that he was supposed to direct Pacific Rim Rebellion Until production moved to China.

“We set out to do this, it was different from the first one, but it was a continuation of a lot of what I was trying to do,” he said. “So what happened, I mean, that’s why life is crazy, right? They had to put down a deposit for the forum rental at 5 p.m. or we’d lose the forum in Toronto for many months.” . original movie Pacific Rim It was also filmed in Toronto, but ultimately the deposit was not paid. “So I said, ‘Don’t forget we’re going to lose the forum,'” he said. “And it’s five o’clock and we’ve lost the forum.”

After the production company in Toronto lost Forum, production moved to China. Unfortunately, it will be without Guillermo del Toro.

“They said, ‘OK, we can film it in China,'” he said. “And I said, ‘What do you mean by us?’ [Risas] ‘I have to go shape of water‘”.

Give it to me He was forced to abandon the sequel because he had already committed to making it shape of waterA film that eventually won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017. Meanwhile, Pacific Rim 2 It was, well… pretty awesome.

Give it to me He previously revealed some details about his version of the sequel, which will include time-traveling Jaegers and more.

“Villain is the kind of technology that basically invented a kind of Internet 2.0,” he revealed. “And then they realized that all of his patents came to him one morning. And so, little by little, they started to piece it together and say, ‘Oh, he got them from his predecessors.’ The guys who control the kaiju.”

“And then we discovered that the precursors are us thousands of years in the future,” Dale explained. tour. “They’re trying to terraform, re-crop the land to survive. Whoah. And we were in exotic biological suits that looked like aliens, but weren’t. We were inside. And that was a really interesting paradox.”

Pacific Rim Rebellion It has a 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Through: IGN

Editor’s note: I had always wondered this and guessed it give me He did not like the script. Who was going to guess the original reason he didn’t direct the sequel?