{"id":31919,"date":"2015-10-29T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=31919"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:36:20","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-gives-update-on-pacific-rim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/guillermo-del-toro-gives-update-on-pacific-rim-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro Updates Status of Pacific Rim 2 on His Twitter Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, in case you missed it: popular director <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealGDT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>! Yes, it is exactly as adorable and gothic and fun as you imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Second, he has taken to said Twitter account to give an update on the troubled status of <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Pacific+Rim&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific Rim 2<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PACIFIC RIM 2: Budget and script went in. No answers yet. If anything happens, I will post. If nothing happens, I will just keep rambling.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealGDT\/status\/659756334842183680\">October 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In del Toro we trust.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news. If you&#8217;ll recall, first production on <em>PacRim 2<\/em> was put on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/09\/16\/pacific-rim-2-production-halted-indefinitely\/\">indefinite hold<\/a>, then Universal Pictures confirmed the sequel in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/09\/29\/pacific-rim-2-still-happening\/\">press release<\/a> (albeit without a release date now, but still).<\/p>\n<p>A submitted script doesn&#8217;t automatically mean the film will be greenlit, of course, but it&#8217;s a step in the right direction and proof that del Toro is still dedicated to this project.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it is greenlit, we may not see it for a while given del Toro has said he&#8217;ll be working on a smaller film next. Still, I&#8217;d rather have confirmation that the movie&#8217;s happening, even if it&#8217;s not for a few years, than struggle being in limbo like I have been with <em>Hellboy 3<\/em> for the past seven years.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out del Toro&#8217;s current project, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Crimson+Peak&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crimson Peak<\/a>,<\/em> in theaters now.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want to see out of <em>Pacific Rim 2?<\/em> Share your ideas in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealGDT\/status\/659756334842183680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, in case you missed it: popular director Guillermo del Toro has a Twitter! Yes, it is exactly as adorable and gothic and fun as you imagine. Second, he has taken to said Twitter account to give an update on the troubled status of Pacific Rim 2. &nbsp; PACIFIC RIM 2: Budget and script went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[3145,112,2605,3258,3293,2531],"yst_prominent_words":[7874,7868,6413,26940,20125,9133,9131,26939,8998,11995,24524,25593,25592,7394,7932,25595,25594,11099,7882,6818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64533,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31919\/revisions\/64533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31919"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}