“Pacific Rim” Becoming a Trilogy
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Warner Bros.(LOS ANGELES) — Director Guillermo del Toro had already announced his hit robots vs. giant monsters movie Pacific Rim will spawn a sequel and an animated show, but in a new interview with Collider, the Oscar nominated filmmaker now says PacRim will spawn a cinematic trilogy.
Pacific Rim 2 will begin shooting November or December of next year.
When asked about the sequel, del Toro explains, “Some of your favorite characters come back, some others don’t because we have decided that we’re going to shoot ambitiously and say ‘Let’s hope we have three movies,’ so some characters come in at the end of the second, hoping that it will ramp up on the third one.”
One “favorite character” who will return is Ron Perlman, who played black marketeer Hannibal Chau in the original. Chau, who makes a living selling body parts from the giant monsters, appears to get eaten by one of them in the movie, though an after-credits scene shows him escaping.
Perlman, a frequent collaborator with del Toro since he and the “visionary” director met in 1991, revealed to ABC News Radio that Chau would be back. “We’re gonna get the offer any day for Pacific Rim 2,” said the star who also starred in Hellboy and its sequel for del Toro.
The former Sons of Anarchy star said of the filmmaker, “He’s Mount Rushmore man…He presides over the movie set you’ve always dreamed of. You know it’s almost like a combination of an eight-year-old’s birthday party…complete with piñatas and…donkeys that give you that five-minute ride and stuff. Uh, the fart jokes, the, the whoopee cushions…he’s like a complete adolescent who happens to be the most well-read, most brilliant, most visionary, imaginative guy who has ever come down the pike, cinema-wise.”
Perlman provides the voice for Xibalba, the God of Death, in the new animated movie The Book of Life. The mystical, magical movie, which also features the voices of Zoe Saldana, Cheech Marin, Christina Applegate and Channing Tatum, opens Friday.
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