{"id":93655,"date":"2016-12-15T10:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=93655"},"modified":"2016-12-15T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T10:20:30","slug":"pacific-rim-2-godzilla-2-titles-officially-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/pacific-rim-2-godzilla-2-titles-officially-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Rim 2, Godzilla 2 titles officially confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official titles for both <em><strong>Pacific Rim 2<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Godzilla 2<\/strong><\/em> have been announced,\u00a0meaning we can finally stop calling them <em><strong>Pacific Rim 2<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Godzilla 2<\/strong><\/em> as if they were some kinds of <em><strong>Kung Fu Panda<\/strong><\/em> sequels (not to knock <em><strong>Kung Fu Panda<\/strong><\/em>, of course, because that franchise is amazing).<\/p>\n<p>First up, <em><strong>Pacific Rim 2<\/strong> <\/em>will be called <em><strong>Pacific Rim: Uprising<\/strong><\/em>, which is kind of surprising seeing as we&#8217;ve all presumed it would be called\u00a0<em><strong>Maelstrom<\/strong><\/em>. Guess not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The film will star John Boyega (<em><strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/em>), Scott Eastwood (<em><strong>Fury<\/strong><\/em>), Adria Arjona (<em><strong>Emerald City<\/strong><\/em>), Tian Jing (<em><strong>Special ID<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0and Nick E Tarabay (<em><strong>The Expanse<\/strong><\/em>). Steven S DeKnight (<em><strong>Daredevil<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Angel<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0is directing, Knight, Emily Carmichael (<em><strong>The Adventures of Ledo And Ix<\/strong><\/em>), TS Nowlin (<em><strong>The Maze Runner<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0and Kira Snyder (<em><strong>The 100<\/strong><\/em>) has written the screenplay, and\u00a0<strong><em>Pacific Rim\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>director Guillermo del Toro came up with the story.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly,\u00a0<em><strong>Godzilla 2<\/strong><\/em> will officially be known for ever more as\u00a0<em><strong>Godzilla: King Of Monsters<\/strong><\/em>, but\u00a0we can&#8217;t decide if that sounds rubbish or awesome. The film is being directed by Michael Dougherty (<em><strong>Krampus<\/strong><\/em>), with a screenplay by Dougherty, Max Borenstein (<em><strong>Godzilla<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0and Zach Shields (also <em><strong>Krampus<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>You can read the announcement of the titles in the following press release from Legendary here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Best known for his work as Executive Producer on such films as Warner Bros\u2019 The Judge and Watchmen, as well as the recently released <em><strong>Jack Reacher: Never Go Back<\/strong><\/em> from Paramount, Gains\u2019 responsibilities will include overseeing production of Legendary\u2019s feature film slate including such highly anticipated projects as <em><strong>Pacific Rim: Uprising<\/strong><\/em>, Pokemon\u2019s <em><strong>Detective Pikachu<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Godzilla: King of Monsters<\/strong><\/em>. Gains will also work closely with the post-production team insuring that the filmmaker\u2019s vision remains intact through production to final distribution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Pacific Rim: Maelstrom<\/em>\u00a0hits cinemas on 23 February 2018 and <em>Godzilla: King Of Monsters<\/em> on 22 March 2019.\u00a0<em><\/em>Get all the latest science fiction news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4741\/s\/scifinow-issue-127\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out what we all should start calling the Pacific Rim and Godzilla sequels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":93656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5531,5530],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AtTheEdge_13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}