7 Reasons Why Universal Should Un-Cancel Pacific Rim 2

3) It Will Feature A Kaiju Jaeger Hybrid

OK, so Pacific Rim wasn’t the most complicated of films. Even in blockbuster terms, ‘monsters fighting robots’ is just about the single most simple concept you’re going to find at the movies.

With that said, Pacific Rim did have the wow factor and a certain element of retro cool going for it – the film was, effectively, a recreation of childhood playtime on a grand scale, with the chief pleasure of the movie being that it featured ridiculous monsters getting destroyed by awesome humananoid giants with rockets in their arms.

For the sequel, del Toro is apparently planning to up that wow factor. In an interview given back in 2013, del Toro said that “you’re going to see a merging of Kaiju and Jaeger” in Pacific Rim 2 (that’d be a consequence of Gipsy Danger “going to the other side” and leaving wreckage behind in the Kaiju homeland at the end of Pacific Rim).

The result could be something even cooler than the proposed Pacific Rim/Godzilla crossover del Toro reportedly wants to happen – expect del Toro and his design team to have gone into overdrive for it.