Pacific Rim Is Stomping Onto TV With New Prequel Series

The satellite of Pacific Rim is making a giant-robot-legged leap to the tiny screen. Variety reports that Legendary Entertainment and Shadow and Bone‘s Eric Heisserer are teaming up connected a caller TV bid acceptable successful the satellite of the kaiju-vs-mecha franchise.

“We are thrilled to motorboat our concern with Eric, Chronology, and Carmen [Lewis, co-founder of accumulation institution Chronology], with a caller introduction successful the epic, globally fashionable Pacific Rim universe,” Jason Clodfelter, president of Legendary Television, said successful a connection provided to Variety. “We are definite their imaginativeness volition marque for an enthralling enlargement to Legendary’s beloved franchise.”

The Pacific Rim bid volition beryllium the archetypal successful Chronology’s first-look TV woody with Legendary, designed to “develop and shepherd IP-driven and related projects” for the studio, according to Variety.

Little was revealed astir the series, different than that it volition enactment arsenic an “origin story” for the franchise. Set successful a adjacent aboriginal wherever overmuch of the satellite has been devastated by the emergence of elephantine monsters called Kaiju—flooding into the satellite via an interdimensional rift discovered successful the Pacific Ocean—Pacific Rim follows the constitution of the “Jaeger Program,” an planetary subject unit that develops elephantine robots operated by aggregate pilots with their minds synced together. The first Pacific Rim movie launched successful 2013, and was followed by a maligned sequel, Uprising, successful 2018, but the franchise has flourished beyond the container bureau since, with the Netflix anime Pacific Rim: The Black and several comic series.

Whether oregon not the bid volition screen the aboriginal days of Kaiju-kind’s quality connected earth, oregon the improvement of the Jaegers and their archetypal battles against the monsters, remains to beryllium seen. But if Monarch: Legacy of Monsters proved you could bash the benignant of standard and scope of Legendary’s different large monster series, Godzilla, connected a streaming bid budget, past possibly there’s anticipation for a batch of amusive monster and robot enactment here, too.

We’ll bring you much connected Legendary’s plans for Pacific Rim arsenic and erstwhile we larn them.

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