It sounds like what we’re getting with Pacific Rim: Uprising is more like the start of a kind of Pacific Rim cinematic universe.
At one point it was Justice League Dark or Pacific Rim [2], [and] I said, ‘Let’s go to Pacific Rim.’
Guillermo del Toro isn’t behind the wheel, and only a few members of the original cast are coming back.
They said, ‘We’ve gotta wait nine months’ and I said, ‘I’m not waiting nine months, I’m shooting a movie,’ and I went and shot [The Shape of Water] and we chose Steven DeKnight [for the Pacific Rim sequel].