As the film industry continues to seize the popularity of live-action movies and adaptations of known worlds, it now has two giant robot movies, which make the fate of the Pacific Rim franchise even more disappointing. When sci-fi and monster films collide, the results are some of the most exciting and entertaining stories, and falling into this category is Pacific Rim. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by him and Travis Beachman, Pacific Rim takes the audience to a future where humans face massive alien monsters called Kaiju. 24605t

It was recently announced that Henry Cavill is ing the cast of Amazon MGM's Voltron, which is especially exciting because this giant robot movie could finally do what Pacific Rimnever could. Although sci-fi is a vast and creative genre, there are many tropes and storylines that are particularly popular among audiences. One of those is movies about giant robots, or mechas. From Transformers to the Power Rangers, mechas have captivated viewers for decades. Now, Amazon MGM is preparing to take advantage of this beloved trope in a way that other franchises have unfortunately failed.

The Pacific Rim franchise has traversed several different forms of media, and the TV show set in that universe has high expectations thanks to a similar franchise proving the concept can work. From Legendary Entertainment, the Pacific Rim live-action TV show will be a prequel to the events of Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 kaiju classic. There are very few details available about the plot or any of the cast and crew who will be involved with its production, but the show will likely feature the early days of the “Kaiju War” depicted in the original movie.

The Pacific Rim TV show will be paying off one of the best scenes from Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 masterpiece. The Kaiju franchise, which debuted in 2013, has been a hit with audiences and critics, and has expanded its universe to include an animated series produced by Netflix. The franchise is set in the future, where the Earth is attacked by giant monsters. In response, the governments of the world create attack robots called Jaeger to defend humanity.

The Pacific Rimuniverse is expanding through a new prequel series. Pacific Rim was originally a 2013 film directed by Guillermo del Toro, featuring a leading cast including Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Burn Gorman, Charlie Day, and Max Martini. The plot focuses on a war between humans and the kaiju that begin to take over the world, and was followed up by the poorly-reviewed film Pacific Rim Uprising.

Pacific Rim: Uprising was a disappointing sequel to Pacific Rim, and one key difference is what makes the Guillermo del Toro version fantastic and the sequel not nearly as good. Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim franchise featured one of the most exciting films to be released by the acclaimed director, with it promising to create a massive blockbuster series. However, when the sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising moved forward without del Toro, it raised a giant red flag that was later proven true as the sequel missed one of the best creative choices from del Toro's original Pacific Rim movie.

Pacific Rim: Uprisingwas a $290 million Kaiju movie disappointment, and the film's failure makes Guillermo del Toro's unmade Pacific Rim sequel even more frustrating. Pacific Rim is one of the acclaimed director's most popular and successful films, with the epic original movie making $411 million on a budget of around $200 million. Because of Pacific Rim's success, a sequel was greenlit soon after the original's release, and while Guillermo del Toro was initially attached to direct the film, the final fate of Pacific Rim: Uprising makes the loss of del Toro's original sequel even more painful.

Although it didn't get the attention it deserved, the best Pacific Rim sequel came out in 2021 — and it's much better than Pacific Rim: Uprising, the 2018 sequel to Guillermo del Toro's hit Kaiju-monster film. Penned by del Toro and Travis Beacham, the original Pacific Rim movie, which hit theaters in 2013, garnered a whopping $411 million at the global box office and received solid reviews from critics and audiences alike, despite its style-over-substance approach. In Pacific Rim, humans are at war with Kaiju — enormous monsters that have crawled out of an inter-dimensional portal.

Netflix's Pacific Rim: The Black continues the monster franchise with an animated sequel, but this entry in the Pacific Rim timeline raises questions on how to watch the Pacific Rim movies in order. The original Pacific Rim movie directed by Guillermo del Toro kicked off the war between Kaiju and Jaegers with a story set in 2025. Next, Pacific Rim: Uprising jumped forward a decade. Three years after Pacific Rim: Uprising, the franchise was able to continue thanks to Pacific Rim: The Black which follows Taylor and Hayley Travis as they travel across Kaiju-infested Australia in search of their parents.

Godzilla has reigned as the ultimate giant monster movie, wreaking havoc since 1954. However, for fans of the genre seeking a fix for massive creature-induced destruction, several other movies stand ready to deliver. While multiple versions of Godzillaloom largest in the public imagination, the world of kaiju cinema extends far beyond these oversized beasts. Since the 1950s, scores of fantastical creature features have unleashed their own gargantuan monsters upon unsuspecting cities and rural countryside alike. These mega-scaled giants have arrived from the ethers of space, rose from the depths of the sea, or spawned from humanity's own reckless tinkering.