Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 film “Pacific Rim” follows washed-up soldier Raleigh Becket, played by Charlie Hunnam, who is pulled out of retirement to team up with a young rookie for one last-ditch attempt to defeat the Kaiju, colossal alien monsters from an interdimensional realm that are at war with Earth. Though a sequel to the commercially and critically successful monster film is in the works, Hunnam will not be returning to the series. In an interview with Yahoo at Comic-Con, Hunnam explained that he was involved in a very early version of the sequel, but couldn’t swing it because of a scheduling conflict and cited the “non-creative” decisions that allow certain choices to be made.
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“They have a very definite schedule that they have to film because of the, you know, politics and business surrounding filmmaking,” says Hunnam.
Read More: John Boyega Will Play Lead Role In ‘Pacific Rim 2’
“They have a very definite schedule that they have to film because of the, you know, politics and business surrounding filmmaking,” says Hunnam.
- 7/26/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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