GdT Talks Pacific Rim 2

Even as Guillermo del Toro is about to begin the publicity push for his sci-fi action epic "Pacific Rim"--while chatting with EW--he says that Legendary Pictures suit Thomas Tull has already asked him about ideas for Pacific Rim 2 which is being written once again Travis Beacham.

 "On the way to the finished screenplay, there were entire angles and ideas that we chopped off because they were too much."

This includes exploring what's on the other side of the inter-dimensional rift beneath the Pacific Ocean through which these giant alien monsters escape. del Toro says:

"They’re a race of blind consumers grabbing planets, consuming them, and moving to the next. The idea [with the sequel] is to explore a little bit of that. I won’t spoil it, but I don’t think we’ll repeat a single beat from the first movie."

del Toro has a busy schedule and thus adds that the sequel is likely to be some time off:

"I don’t think the screenplay will come out so quick. It took us a year and a half to do this script, and it’ll take us at least two years to develop the other script."

Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi Max Martini. Robert Kazinsky Clifton Collins Jr Diego Klattenhoff Ron Perlman and Willem Dafoe star in the first pic that has a July 12, 2013 release.