{"id":34181,"date":"2014-06-26T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T00:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=34181"},"modified":"2014-06-26T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T00:57:26","slug":"pacific-rim-2-is-a-go-as-universal-sets-april-7-2017-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/26\/pacific-rim-2-is-a-go-as-universal-sets-april-7-2017-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"PACIFIC RIM 2 Is A Go As Universal Sets April 7, 2017 Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Great news for fans of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim<\/strong>. You’ll want to mark your calendars for April 7, 2017, as that is the date that Universal will be releasing Pacific Rim 2<\/strong> into theaters.<\/p>\n

Although the film underperformed at the US Box office, barely making $100 million in ticket sales, Pacific Rim<\/strong> did manage to gross another $309 million world wide. That, plus some healthy home video sales, have convinced the studio to give Del Toro the go-ahead to start work in earnest on a sequel. In addition, Del Toro will also be developing an animated Pacific Rim series and overseeing some sequels growing out of the 2012 Pacific Rim<\/strong> graphic novel prequel, Year Zero<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can see the announcement from Del Toro below.<\/p>\n

Previously<\/a>, the director had stated that he was already working on a sequel screenplay with writer Zak Penn. Travis Beacham, who wrote the original screenplay for the first film, will still be involved in the franchise, though in a more limited capacity due to his to the upcoming TV series Hieroglyph<\/em>.<\/p>\n