Pacific Rim’s TV Present Drifts to Prime Video

Plans for Pacific Rim‘s TV present, which some might have forgotten was even in improvement, are shifting from idea to actuality, because the collection has formally discovered a house on Amazon.

As reported by Variety, Legendary Tv and Amazon MGM have secured a deal to develop the collection, written and government produced by Eric Heisserer, identified for Shadow and Bone, for Prime Video. The streamer has caught the mecha bug, having gained streaming rights for the fourth Neon Genesis Evangelion anime rebuild movie, Thrice Upon a Time, in addition to the new Mobile Suit Gundam anime, Gquuuuuux, so the transfer makes a number of sense when you consider it from a hen’s eye view.

Not a lot has been revealed in regards to the collection exterior of it serving as a prequel origin story for the franchise. Pacific Rim unfolds in a world the place an interdimensional rift has opened within the Pacific Ocean, letting large monsters wreak havoc. Humankind’s solely course of counteraction is placing a two pilots in a large robotic known as Jaegers, the place they share a psychic hyperlink and kick ass. How a lot ass, you ask? Properly, one pivotal scene within the unique movie name a large robotic named Gypsy Hazard beat the brakes off a kaiju in a dense neon cityscape utilizing a large cargo ship as a baseball bat. Pacific Rim rips.

The forthcoming Prime Video collection isn’t the franchise’s first enlargement effort. In 2018, John Boyega headlined the sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising. Netflix additionally produced the anime Pacific Rim: Black, which ran for 2 seasons. Past display screen variations, the franchise has ventured into merchandising, comics, and novels.

Nonetheless, none have matched the impact of the original 2013 film, directed by Guillermo del Toro, which rapidly achieved cult classic status amongst diehard followers of kaiju and large robotic motion flicks. It additionally doesn’t harm that the movie grossed $400 million on the international field workplace.

Hopefully, when the present premieres, Amazon’s Pacific Rim present will earn its place alongside del Toro’s movie as a standout within the franchise, relatively than fading into obscurity like a few of its predecessors. Seeing as how Legendary already knocked it out of the park with its enlargement of the Godzilla Monsterverse by means of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the studio could also be on the verge of placing lightning twice within the kaiju class—however solely time will inform whether or not issues shake out that method. 

Need extra io9 information? Try when to count on the newest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on film and TV, and every thing you have to find out about the way forward for Doctor Who.