Pacific Rim Uprising director Steve S. DeKnight has revealed that Mako Mori’s story will continue in Pacific Rim 3, should it happen.
DeKnight is now offering his assurances that Mako’s death was not something included lightly in Uprising and that her story was always meant to continue on in a third Pacific Rim film.
SPOILERS for Pacific Rim Uprising ahead.
DeKnight didn’t reveal anything else beyond that, presumably in order to avoid spoiling how Mako would return in Pacific Rim 3.