These PACIFIC RIM UPRISING Photos Give us Our Best Look at the Film Yet! Plus We Have New Details
Thanks to EW, we have four new photos to share with you from Legendary Pictures' Pacific Rim Uprising and they give us our best look yet at the film! Seeing these photos actually got me more excited about this movie and about seeing the trailer that will be released this weekend.
The film's star, John Boyega talked with the outlet about the film and teased the kind of Kaiju that they will be facing in the sequel, saying:
“The Kaiju have found a new way. They are way more intelligent than we thought they were. The monsters you saw in the first movie were the test run, to see how the planet would hold up. The breach we thought was closed is not their only way into our world. Their plans are more specific. Jake leads the team in trying to build up a new defense against that.”
When talking about his character, Jake Pentecost, the son of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), Boyega reveals some new details, explaining:
“Jake is the prodigal son. He is a young guy who was on the cusp of greatness in his early days when he was training to be a Jaeger pilot, but he always had a troubled relationship with Stacker. I’m the son he didn’t really talk about in the first film … the product of Stacker’s first love.
“He felt he never lived up to his father’s expectations and so he decided to leave the Jaeger program and start stealing for a living.
“When we meet him, he is living in an abandoned mansion in Santa Monica, which is half a mansion anyway because there’s a big Kaiju claw-swipe that has crushed part of it. He sells and buys stolen goods, and some of that includes Jaeger parts.”
He goes on to talk to talk about the Jaeger he pilots with Scott Eastwood, which is named the Gypsy Avenger:
“She’s an upgrade model form Gipsy Danger in the first movie. She is still a two-man Jaeger and has new weapons and technology. The new Gipsy has LCD screens and holographic imagery of what is going outside. Her gravity sling has improved. Pilots are no longer locked into robot by feet. It has a scanning system that makes the drift easier to handle. Gipsy Avenger is strongest and hardest to operate.”
There's even a Jaeger that is capable of martial arts movies! It's called Saber Athena and it's the orange one in the photo above.
“She’s the fastest Jaeger, and she is agile and assigned two skillful pilots who know how to do martial arts. She has two swords she can join together to slice stuff down. She’s flexible and very fast.”
There are two other Jaeger's in the photo above. The Guardian Bravo, which is the red one, has "big electric whips, but is very stocky and strong.” Then there is the Bracer Phoenix, which is the first photo from the film that you can see below:
“She is a mystery rogue Jaeger, but is really strong and advanced. he has guns on the chest. That Jaeger is, in fact, a three-man rig — one is in the cockpit shooting missiles and bullets from the chest.”
There's lots of exciting stuff to look forward to seeing in this movie! Pacific Rim Uprising is being directed by Steven S. DeKnight (Daredevil, Spartacus). It's set to be released in theaters on March 23, 2018.
Stay tuned for that new trailer coming this weekend!
Here's the recently released synopsis:
The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity in Pacific Rim Uprising.
John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity’s victory against the monstrous “Kaiju.” Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)—who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.
Jake is joined by gifted rival pilot Lambert (The Fate of the Furious’ Scott Eastwood) and 15-year-old Jaeger hacker Amara (newcomer Cailee Spaeny), as the heroes of the PPDC become the only family he has left. Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they will set course for a spectacular all-new adventure on a towering scale.