Only, the battle that they thought concluded in the original movie has expanded, as Charlie Day’s manic scientist Dr. Newton Geiszler explains that the Kaiju have evolved.
Jake Pentecost (Boyega) is part of a new generation of soldiers who, as the trailer lays out, were born into this world of robots and monsters, and know very little outside of the war-torn environment they have to call home.
Which means the Jaegars have to improve alongside them.
If you couldn’t tell from the trailer, and his use of the word “apocalypse” in his inspirational speech, John Boyega is playing the son of Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost — the commanding leader who gave his life in the original film.