Guillermo del Toro Shares Details on His PACIFC RIM 2 and It Would Have Involved Time Travel
As you might suspect, director Guillermo del Toro had a different vision for the sequel for Pacific Rim than the one that director Steven S. DeKnight delivered. I really liked the first movie, but I didn’t care much for the sequel. It would have been much better had Del Toro taken it on.
During a recent interview with The Wrap, the filmmaker opened up about his plans initial plans for the sequel, most of which was abandoned when DeKnight took over. So what did Del Toro’s Pacific Rim sequel look like? The filmmaker revealed:
“The villain was this tech guy that had invented basically sort of the internet 2.0. And then they realized that all his patents came to him one morning. And so little by little, they started putting together this and they said, ‘Oh, he got them from the precursors.’ The guys that control the kaiju. And then we found out that the precursors are us thousands of years in the future. They’re trying to terraform, trying to re-harvest the earth to survive. Wow. And that we were in exo-bio-suits that looked alien, but they were not. We were inside. And it was a really interesting paradox.”
Damn, that’s ambitious and cool and an original idea that involved time travel, people in strange alien suits, kaiju action, and a villainous tech genius who is receiving signals from another reality. I love it! That sounds so much better than the sequel we got! Del Toro went on to say:
“It was really crazy. And some elements of that they took and they re-jigged.”
The report goes on to share that the character Mako Mori would have been one of the main characters in the sequel. In the film that was released, she was killed off, which was a disservice to the character with such a tragic backstory as she was an orphan whose parents are killed in a kaiju attack. The director said:
"To me, the hero was Mako Mori. I wanted her not only to live, I wanted her to be one of the main characters in the second movie."
It’s a shame that we’ll never get to see this film.