History Trivia / PacificRimUprising

** ''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've been from the future.

* BTeamSequel: Creator/GuillermoDelToro was set to direct while the film was still in pre-production. While he remains as a producer, he announced via Twitter in February 2016 that Steven S. [=DeKnight=] would instead take over as director, so he can direct ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'' instead.

** [[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 ''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.

** ''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 Percursors, Mako would've been the main protagonist and also survive to the end along with that the Percursors would've been from the future.

** ''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.

** 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''.

* FranchiseKiller: There were plans for a third Pacific Rim, but unfortunately, Uprising became a box office bomb upon release thus rendering it the last time we see some robots fighting more kaijus in theaters. It's subverted, however, as there are plans for an anime adaptation that would expand on the previous two films.

** ''Uprising'' is apparently [[https://screenrant.com/guillermo-del-toro-pacific-rim-2-story-plan/ very different from his 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.