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‘Pacific Rim 2’ Fate is Very Uncertain at the Moment
With yesterday’s news that director Guillermo del Toro would be headlining the long-gestating remake of the 1966 sci-fi/adventure film Fantastic Voyage, questions arose as to the plans for Pacific Rim 2, the sequel to the 2013 sci-fi/action film. The last we had heard on the status of the project, del Toro had turned in a script as well as a new (smaller) budget plan for the film.
Our sources are saying that the project is deader than dead in the water with THR adding the movie has been removed from Legendary’s release schedule indefinitely. However, the site suggests a possible Hail Mary: the acquisition of Legendary by Chinese mega corporation Wanda, which is the world’s largest cinema chain operator. Pacific Rim‘s biggest success was in China, even besting the United States, so they’d obviously have an interest in seeing the Jaegers and Kaiju battle once again.
Still, as we have come to learn with del Toro, nothing is ever certain.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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