‘Pacific Rim 2’ Has Been Delayed Indefinitely

Briefly: Man, this is not Guillermo Del Toro’s year.

First, the master filmmaker’s collaboration with master gamemaker Hideo Kojima, a reboot of the once lauded Silent Hill series was shuddered after Konami kind of went crazy, and now it looks like the sequel to 2013’s fantastic and original monsters fightin’ robots flick Pacific Rim has been delayed indefinitely and may not happen at all.

May not happen at all. Damn it.

THR broke the news earlier today and while not many details were provided, basically Pacific Rim was  “one of those films that grosses a lot ($411 million worldwide) while being so costly that a follow-up isn’t a sure thing.”

Damn it. With a new comic book and animated series also in the works (read my interview with the writer of the new Pacific Rim comic, Joshua Fialkov here), it may be hard to see what the future of the franchise sits, but I certainly hope that Universal comes to its senses and that Pacific Rim 2 doesn’t get lost in the drift.

In any case, I’m beyond excited for Del Toro’s upcoming Crimson Peak.

If Pacific Rim 2 still happens, what do you hope to see in the sequel?