The majority of the cast members reported for Pacific Rim: Uprising thus far have been franchise newcomers, presumed to be playing Boyega’s fellow Jaeger pilots in the sequel.
The cast list shown in Mindel’s photo also seemingly confirms that Charlie Day and Burn Gorman are reprising their Pacific Rim roles as, respectively, Dr. Newton Geiszler and his scientist buddy Hermann Gottlieb in Uprising.
However, we now at last have a sequel-related update (of sorts) about Hunnam’s costar in the original Pacific Rim, Rinko Kikuchi.
Guillermo del Toro’s love letter to movies and TV shows about giant piloted-robots battling giant monsters, Pacific Rim is getting a sequel in 2018 in the form of Pacific Rim: Uprising.