In an interview with Collider, Hunnam explained how scheduling problems prevented him from joining the sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising.
The Pacific Rim series tells the story of an interdimensional rip at the bottom of the Pacific ocean, through which a series of giant monsters known as Kaiju enter Earth and embark on a destructive rampage.
Most recently, Netflix announced an anime series based on the franchise titled Pacific Rim: The Black, which will explore a different facet of humanity’s war against the Precursors.
I’d been working in long-form storytelling for a while and we’d already done one Pacific Rim, so I felt like, “Go with God.