Zak Penn talks Pacific Rim 2 - Says story will focus more on Kaiju origins!

Pacific Rim sequel co-screenwriter Zak Penn recenly sat down for an interview with The Mary Sue about a recent documentary he directed, Atari: Game Over but during the interview he also discussed his work on Pacific Rim 2 with co-writer and director Guillermo del Toro. Though not a lot of relatively "new" information is revealed, we learn that the story will primarily focus on the origins of the Kaiju as well as expand the universe Pacific Rim created in the first film. Jaegers and their technology will be different and more advanced. Basically he says he and Del Toro are focusing on adding more depth to both the Kaiju and Jaeger stories. Read on for an excerpt from the interview where Zak discusses Pacific Rim 2:

TMS: Finally, our readers would kill me if I didn’t ask about Pacific Rim 2.

Penn:  It’s going well. Guillermo [del Toro] and I have been passing the script back and forth and right now it’s in his hands. And here’s the other thing I’ve learned about working with Guillermo: every once in a while I’ll turn on my computer or open the newspaper and there’ll be some tidbit that Guillermo has told everyone about what we’re doing. So I feel like it’s not my place [to talk] ‘cuz he’s the one who’s gonna tease what he’s gonna tease. I’m also kind of surprised when he does it. I like it, but I also find it frustrating—you shouldn’t give away the movie, but we’re not making Se7en where if you know the end it blows it. It’s not like we can’t talk about it at all.

But honestly, I don’t think I could tell you anything that Guillermo hasn’t already said. Obviously as you can imagine, there’s going to be a lot more about the Kaiju and their origins, and the world will be in a very different state when we get to this movie. He and Travis created this enormous universe that’s pretty much like multiple movies smashes into one. So with Pacific Rim, you could just assume that all the specific tropes of the movie, like the giant robots and the giant monsters and all the technology around it, is going o be explored in more depth. That’s just where we’re going. But I’m not going to tell you the story cuz that would just ruin it.

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