Pacific Rim 2is finally happening and the movie is currently filming right now for a release next year. It took a little longer to get going than some fans of the first movie would have liked, but the important thing is, we will be returning to that cinematic world withPacific Rim: Uprising. The sequel has added some new talent to the cast, includingSuicide SquadstarScott Eastwood. Now, we have our first look at him on the set ofPacific Rim: Uprising.
The photo comes courtesy of theScott Eastwoodfan pageInstagramaccount, which shows his character all suited up in Jaeger pilot garb, meaning we are going to see him piloting one of the giant robots in thePacific Rim sequel. We don’t know a whole lot aboutScott Eastwood’s character, but he is named Nate Lambert and based on the picture, it looks like he is going to be getting knocked around quite a bit inPacific Rim: Uprising. It also isn’t clear if he is going to be piloting one of theJaegersfrom the first movie, like Gypsy Danger, or if he will be taking charge of a new giant, alien destroying robot.
Outside ofScott Eastwood,Star Wars: The Force AwakensstarJohn Boyegais playing the son ofIdris Elba’s character, Stacker Pentecost, who died a pretty heroic death at the end of the firstPacific Rim.Cailee SpaenyandKarl Urbanhave also joined the cast, which will seeRinko Kikuchi,Charlie DayandBurn Gormanreturning forPacific Rim 2, butCharlie Hunnamwon’t be back. It is fairly interesting thatPacific Rim: Uprisingwill be leaning heavily on new cast members, most of whom don’t have a lot of “big name” recognition. That said, the big draw for something likePacific Rimis giant robots fighting giant aliens, which doesn’t rely all that much on a big movie star to accomplish effectively.
Details onPacific Rim: Uprisinghave largely been kept under wraps, since we haven’t even been given an official synopsis yet, so these little social media teases are pretty much all we have to go on at the moment. Given that the humans managed to seemingly close the Breach at the end ofPacific Rim, it would appear that the problem was solved to some degree. That said, they just closed the breach and didn’t actually deal with all of the Kaiju, so it would stand to reason that the creatures are going to find their way back to Earth some way or another, meaning that the world will once again need Jaegers to defend the world against these massive aliens, and those Jaegers are going to need pilots.
Guillermo Del Torodirected the firstPacific Rim, but he is not returning in that capacity forPacific Rim 2. Instead, it isDaredevilshowrunnerSteven S. DeKnightwho will be in the director’s chair this time around.Pacific Rim: Uprisingis currently set for release on June 15, 2025. Be sure to check out the new picture ofScott Eastwoodas a Jaeger pilot for yourself below.
