Pacific Rim 2 Hires Jurassic World Writer
Will the monster magic rub off?
Daredevil's Steven DeKnight is already on board to direct the sequel and now The Hollywood Reporter are saying that Derek Connolly - who co-wrote Jurassic World - has been enlisted to work on the script. Del Toro, meanwhile, will produce.
So far, drafts for the mechas v monsters tale have been turned in by Del Toro, Zak Penn and Jon Spaihts, and plot details are a little hard to come by. At one point it would have been set in the future of the original movie when Jaegars have become a regular thing. Well, as regular as gigantic monster-fighting robots can get.
Connolly already has previous working on monster flicks and sci-fi, having scribed the excellent Safety Not Guaranteed, and Jurassic World and its forthcoming sequel. He's also been involved on Kong: Skull Island, so he has about as broad an experience of the genre as anyone's likely to get these days.
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