Pacific Rim Is Stomping Onto TV With New Prequel Collection

The world of Pacific Rim is making a giant-robot-legged leap to the small display screen. Variety experiences that Legendary Leisure and Shadow and Bone‘s Eric Heisserer are teaming up on a brand new TV sequence set on the earth of the kaiju-vs-mecha franchise.

“We’re thrilled to launch our partnership with Eric, Chronology, and Carmen [Lewis, co-founder of production company Chronology], with a brand new entry within the epic, globally widespread Pacific Rim universe,” Jason Clodfelter, president of Legendary Tv, mentioned in a press release supplied to Selection. “We’re sure their imaginative and prescient will make for an enthralling growth to Legendary’s beloved franchise.”

The Pacific Rim sequence would be the first in Chronology’s first-look TV take care of Legendary, designed to “develop and shepherd IP-driven and associated tasks” for the studio, in response to Selection.

Little was revealed concerning the sequence, aside from that it’ll act as an “origin story” for the franchise. Set in a close to future the place a lot of the world has been devastated by the emergence of large monsters known as Kaiju—flooding into the world by way of an interdimensional rift found within the Pacific Ocean—Pacific Rim follows the institution of the “Jaeger Program,” a global navy drive that develops large robots operated by a number of pilots with their minds synced collectively. The primary Pacific Rim film launched in 2013, and was adopted by a maligned sequel, Rebellion, in 2018, however the franchise has flourished past the field workplace since, with the Netflix anime Pacific Rim: The Black and several comic series.

Whether or not or not the sequence will cowl the early days of Kaiju-kind’s look on earth, or the event of the Jaegers and their preliminary battles in opposition to the monsters, stays to be seen. But when Monarch: Legacy of Monsters proved you would do the form of scale and scope of Legendary’s different massive monster sequence, Godzilla, on a streaming sequence finances, then perhaps there’s hope for lots of enjoyable monster and robotic motion right here, too.

We’ll convey you extra on Legendary’s plans for Pacific Rim as and once we study them.

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