When the Pacific Rim movie released in 2013, a huge part of the film’s success goes to its visionary director. After this movie resounding success, the second movie came out in 2018. If suffered the loss of major cast members of the first one and changing hands in the direction also didn’t help either.
The movie tells the story of Kaiju battles in epic proportions, But it’s not just a mindless action flick. The second film Pacific Rim uprising brought in an estimated $290M worldwide. The official synopsis for the anime series is described as follows, As monsters emerge from the sea to attack Earth, humanity, fights back using giant robot warriors in this anime adaption of the blockbuster film.
This movie is now available for digital purchase, and the Blue-ray and DVD copies will hit shelves on June 19.
This the next upcoming movie, Nothing’s been officially confirmed and announced about the third sequel of Pacific Rim, aside from del Toto’s grand vision for another robot vs monsters battle royale, and a lot might depend on how the sequel does in theaters when it’s released on March 23.
But history’s shown that when the strategy doesn’t work, It backfires big time. Mental Floss notes just some of the films that went out of their way to set up a sequel, including The Golden Compass, Super Mario, Brothers only to have the possibility remain as empty promise after the films crashed and burned at the box office.
