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Kaiju to be featherless in 'Pacific Rim 2'; Derek Connolly (JW) working on script

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Demoncarnotaur

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Steven DeKnight, the showrunner of season 1 of Netflix’s Daredevil is now on board to direct with Thomas Tull, Mary Parent and Jon Jashni also producing.

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It is unclear is Connolly is doing a page one rewrite or developing certain story ideas.

Connolly has become a name in the monster world as the scribe, whose first screen credit was Safety Not Guaranteed, co-wrote Jurassic World with frequent collaborator Colin Trevorrow, that film’s director.

Connolly has since then worked on Jurassic World 2 and impressed the Legendary exec with his writing on the company’s creature-filled Kong: Skull Island. He also co-wrote Intelligent Life, DreamWorks' sci-fi drama that has Lupita N'yongo attached to star.
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He's also working on Star Wars 9.

This should be a fun thread.
 
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Sulik2

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Its giant robots punching giant monsters. The monster fights were amazing in JW, he should do a great job.
 
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Aurongel

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Well at least you can see he was only accountable for a portion of the trainwreck that was the Jurassic World script. Oh well, it's not like the original Pacific Rim was a marvel of modern storytelling or anything. Cheesy writing would probably fit that film quite well.
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I have a coworker who designed a couple of the Kaiju for the first Pacific Rim and I think she is doing some creature design work for the sequel. I should tell her to make her Kaiju covered in feathers.
 
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Garrett Hawke

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forgeforsaken said:
How about a Jaeger?
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this too
Amalthea said:
This is Unitang from Ultraman Ace, she can turn into 10 cycling women as a disguise. And she has even tits on her back.

I really wish I was kidding...
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I don't really know how to respond to this tbh... I'm nearly impressed.
brandonh83 said:
What in Jurassic World makes you think the writer (not art director/visual designer) would have booby Kaiju's in Pacific Rim?
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Someone was responsible for it. Just need to weed out who it was 👀
 
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HStallion

Now what's the next step in your master plan?
I'm kind of hoping they go full anime with some of the Jaeger designs. I want a Jaeger with a fucking cape for that Diebuster reference or giant angel wings for the 12 year old me who was all about Gundam Wing.
 
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torre_avenue

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Part of what made Pacific Rim so good was the reverence behind mecha and kaiju that was infused into the script by Beacham and the directing by Del Toro. Beacham had planned out the whole world of Pacific Rim, and I really don't want a page one rewrite of the film.

As much as I wanted a Pacific Rim 2, I'm worried the version that'll come out isn't the version I wanted. I'm worried a first time director helming this will lead to the studio basically making the film like Transformers with monsters. I just really want Raleigh and Mako to end up together and be badasses fighting mecha-kaiju.
 
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Brakke

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The thing that made JW garbage was that it really felt like it had a dozen writers and twice as many script revisions. Hard for me to hold anyone on the writing side totally responsible for that mess without knowing way more about the process there than I care to. But I'm definitely uneasy about anything from anyone involved in JW.

I started reading the Production section of the Jurassic World Wikipedia page the other day but I died of old age before getting through the first subsection.
 
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torre_avenue said:
Part of what made Pacific Rim so good was the reverence behind mecha and kaiju that was infused into the script by Beacham and the directing by Del Toro. Beacham had planned out the whole world of Pacific Rim, and I really don't want a page one rewrite of the film.

As much as I wanted a Pacific Rim 2, I'm worried the version that'll come out isn't the version I wanted. I'm worried a first time director helming this will lead to the studio basically making the film like Transformers with monsters. I just really want Raleigh and Mako to end up together and be badasses fighting mecha-kaiju.
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Yeah - my expectations are at the bottom of the breach.
 
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SJRB

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With Godzilla pushed to 2020 or something and Kong to 2018 [I guess?] I wouldn't be surprised if this movie gets stuck in limbo the next 10 years.

I hope it goes throug though, amazing concept with a decent first try that really deserves a second [and better] chance.
 
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NastyBook

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Give Japan Jet Jaguar or the Big O this time around. Seriously, the first movie not having any representation from Japan was the dumbest oversight. Or the most intentional snub.
 
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mjc

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SJRB said:
With Godzilla pushed to 2020 or something and Kong to 2018 [I guess?] I wouldn't be surprised if this movie gets stuck in limbo the next 10 years.

I hope it goes throug though, amazing concept with a decent first try that really deserves a second [and better] chance.
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Pacific Rim did exactly what it advertised. It's not high cinema, but it's one of the more entertaining flicks of recent years IMO.
 
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inky

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Dhruv_hanom said:
This movie is alive!? What? When did that happen? Last I heard Lionhead didn't greelight it
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That's a pretty fun typo there, lol.

They did, then they did not, then they kind of did again and it all points to it going ahead because Legendary wants stuff out there they can draw a universe out of I guess.

In any case don't even know what to else to say. Like, if it ever gets made I'll watch it, but the biggest draw for me was obviously GDT and it will feel different without him around, even if he's "producing" or whatever.
 
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Brakke

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DeathoftheEndless said:
I think the one piloted by Idris Elba was technically Japanese.
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Pentecost pilots two Jaegers in the movie, the Australian Striker Eureaka in the present and the "Japanese" one in Mako's flashback. But for the "Japanese" jaeger, Striker's British and his copilot was American. So that technicality is kind of stretching things.
 
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HStallion said:
I'm kind of hoping they go full anime with some of the Jaeger designs. I want a Jaeger with a fucking cape for that Diebuster reference or giant angel wings for the 12 year old me who was all about Gundam Wing.
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Wing Zero was good, but the original transformable Wing with both plane and Gundam forms was even better (but then, I also have a Macross bias, so that explains a lot with me).

Hm, though the script wasn't phenomenal with the original, for as much as I enjoyed the original, and I didn't dislike Jurassic World, I'll lower my expectations a bit further between the choice of writer and the fact that del Toro won't be directing this time.
 
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