Interviewing DeKnight earlier this month at his movie’s domestic press day in Los Angeles, I asked about the development process and how much the film changed from its earliest drafts to the final cut, and it was within his response that the filmmaker mentioned two key points in his “manifesto” written for the folks at Legendary Pictures.
The movie is a full 22 minutes shorter than its Guillermo del Toro-directed predecessor, and apparently it was no accident.
While there may have been a bit of fat at one point, the ultimate goal was to make the feature as streamlined as possible.
It may seem like a no-brainer to want to make a robots vs. monsters movie as fun as it can possibly be, but these comments from Steven DeKnight do shed an interesting light on Pacific Rim Uprising’s slim 110 minute runtime.