Line #13 Trivia/PacificRimUprising


1	* AscendedFanon: The fan-created Jaeger [[https://rs2studios.deviantart.com/art/CUSTOM-PACIFIC-RIM-JAEGER-AZURE-DEFIANT-402977995 Azure Defiant]] appears in the background of a [[http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Pacific-Rim-Aftermath/Issue-1?id=129092#23 panel]] (Warning: NSFW Ads) of the Aftermath comic. Even the pose is the same.
2	* BoxOfficeBomb: Less severe than most, with a budget of $150 million, it has pulled in gross, $59,185,715 (domestic), $290,061,297 (worldwide). They actually went into the film knowing they had a certain marker to be profitable, as the first film cost more but was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff surprisingly popular in China]] and Chinese backers are what got the film made.
3	* BTeamSequel: Creator/GuillermoDelToro was set to direct while the film was still in pre-production. While he remained as a producer, he announced via Twitter in February 2016 that Steven S. [=DeKnight=] would instead take over as director, so he could direct ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' instead.
4	* CaliforniaDoubling: Zig-zagged. The Moyulan Shatterdome in the China sea (the film, along with ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', actually was filmed at the Oriental Movie Metropolis facility in China, which is owned by Legendary Pictures' parent company Wanda Group) and the scenes set in Australia were shot there. But played straight with the parts in the United States and Tokyo.
5	* ChannelHop: The first film was released by Creator/WarnerBros; this film was released by Creator/{{Universal}} due to Creator/LegendaryPictures having switched distributors in the interim.
6	* CreatorKiller: Along with ''Film/TheGreatWall'', this film torpedoed Legendary's 2014 distribution deal with Universal, resulting in Legendary returning to Creator/WarnerBros for most films from 2019 onward.
7	** The director Steven S. [=DeKnight=], also returned to television directing, and have not another film project.
8	* DawsonCasting: Most of the actors playing the teenage Shatterdome cadets were in their late teens or very early twenties at the time of filming, but played straight with some of them, such as Wesley Wong as Jinhai (then 30) and Levi Meaden as Ilya (then 29-30).
9	* DuelingMovies: Defied by the studio. It was previously going to open only a week after ''Film/{{Black Panther\|2018}}'', but the studio moved it back to March to avoid the competition. It allowed it to become the first film to dethrone ''Black Panther'' from the top spot.
10	* FranchiseKiller: The film got much worse reviews than [[Film/PacificRim the first movie]], from critics, general audiences, and fans, and was a BoxOfficeBomb, losing an estimated 60 million USD. The ending has a big SequelHook and was clearly meant to be a franchise jumping-off point, but, aside from a [[Anime/PacificRimTheBlack very short-lived animated spinoff]] that came and went with little splash, there has been no further news about followups.
11	* MissingTrailerScene: A few lines are present in trailers but not in the movie, some intentionally misleading for sure. However one notable shot is of Lambert on the ground and presumably shooting at the swarm.
12	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: There was a brief period of time after the first film when there was no set release date, nor even any confirmation on whether or not it would be released, other than Guillermo del Toro promising that it would eventually be made.
13	* ProductionPosse: Fans of ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' will recognize a few familiar faces (or, at least, familiar names). Probably most obvious, Nick Tarabay (Ashur) is the crook Jake is working with at the start of the film, and Shane Rangi (Ashur's fellow Syrian Dagan) is another member of the gang. Dustin Clare (Gannicus) is one of Shao's drone pilots, implied to be Lambert's former co-pilot. Dan Feuerriegel (Agron) also has a credited role.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
15	** ''Uprising'' is apparently [[https://screenrant.com/guillermo-del-toro-pacific-rim-2-story-plan/ very different from Del Toro's original plans]]. The only hard details we have are that there were going to be scenes in Shanghai and a desert (which is pretty suggestive, given the Kaiju's amphibious natures), and the final battle would have taken place in -- and leveled -- San Francisco. That said, [[http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/46580/guillermo-del-toro-talks-pacific-rim-sequel-kaiju-jaeger-hybrid/ it was certainly Del Toro]] who conceived merging Jaegers and Kaiju in this film and making the Kaiju brain drift an affair with two-way consequences. Del Toro would into more further detail in 2021 on [[https://www.thewrap.com/guillermo-del-to-toro-pacific-rim-2-original-version/ his original plans]] with revealing that the main villain would've been a tech inventor receiving signals from another reality that would be revealed to be from the Precursors, Mako would've been the main protagonist and also survive to the end along with that the Precursors would have actually been [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans from the future, whom had traveled back in time force resources.]]
16	** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/PacificRim/comments/vfc8mu/original_scene_for_the_creation_of_the_megakaiju/ The scene where Hakuja, Shrikethorn and Raijin are combined into the Mega-Kaiju]] was originally far more graphic and gruesome, with them being shown ''[[https://paologiandoso.artstation.com/projects/lgRwk?album_id=989352 literally shredded into mincemeat]]'' by the Ripper drones and the resulting shapeless heaps of disemembered flesh being condensed and hardened into the Mega-Kaiju. The final film tones it down, obscuring most of the transformation with smoke and showing identifiable larger parts like arms, heads and tails being shifted around.
17	** Creator/CharlieHunnam would have reprised his role as Raleigh Becket, but there was a scheduling conflict as he was filming a remake of ''Literature/{{Papillon}}''. Creator/LegendaryPictures could have forced him to appear in ''Uprising'', which would have delayed ''Papillon'''s production, but they respected him enough not to do that to him. Still, they left his fate in ''Uprising'' ambiguous in order to open to door to future appearances of Raleigh in the franchise. (The novelization states he died of cancer before the events of the film, but its canonicity is debatable and could be easily ruled out.)
18	** Obsidian Fury was almost named Black Mariah, which was the initial name they came up with and Steven S. [=DeKnight=] ''loved''. Then he realized ''why'' he loved the name. . . it belongs to a [[Series/LukeCage2016 recently-prominent]] Marvel Comics villain.
19	** In February 2021, Steven [=DeKnight=] [[https://twitter.com/stevendeknight/status/1359651243094798338 revealed on Twitter]] that he had hoped to make a third ''Pacific Rim'' film that crossed over with the ''Franchise/MonsterVerse''.
20	* WordOfGay: Charlie Day said in a [[https://nerdist.com/pacific-rim-uprising-charlie-day-burn-gorman-newmann-newton-geiszler-hermann-gottlieb/ number]] of [[https://twitter.com/oceanyia/status/976661449241186304?s=19 interviews]] that he played Newt as being in love with Hermann. Steven [=DeKnight=] has also [[https://twitter.com/stevendeknight/status/979424437417082880 expressed approval]] of this interpretation.
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