Pacific Rim: Tales From The Drift

<div class="center"><figure class="article-thumb tnone show-info-icon" style="width: 350px"><span class="thumbnail-play-icon-container"><svg class="thumbnail-play-icon" viewbox="0 0 180 180" width="100%" height="100%"><g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g opacity=".9" transform="rotate(90 75 90)"><g fill="#000" filter="url(#a)"><rect id="b" width="150" height="150" rx="75"></rect></g><g fill="#FFF"><rect id="b" width="150" height="150" rx="75"></rect></g></g><path fill="#00D6D6" fill-rule="nonzero" d="M80.87 58.006l34.32 25.523c3.052 2.27 3.722 6.633 1.496 9.746a6.91 6.91 0 0 1-1.497 1.527l-34.32 25.523c-3.053 2.27-7.33 1.586-9.558-1.527A7.07 7.07 0 0 1 70 114.69V63.643c0-3.854 3.063-6.977 6.84-6.977 1.45 0 2.86.47 4.03 1.34z"></path></g></svg></span> <figcaption> <p class="title">Pacific Rim Uprising IMAX® Trailer</p> </figcaption></figure></div> <p>My inbox was overflowing from the same story bit being reported by multiple sources jumping off from the Nerdist.com. This is basically Steven S. DeKnight jumping off of the "franchise" references during the New York Comic-Con 2017 discussion panel. I'll cut the fat and just get to the brief talking point DeKnight mentioned in the post-panel interview. </p><p><big>An Entire <i>Pacific Rim</i> universe could be on the way</big> </p> <table class="cquote" style="margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color:transparent; width:auto;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; padding:3px;"> “ </td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding:3px; font-style:italic;"> DeKnight: “I’m certainly hoping so. I think you’ll definitely probably get more comics. The plan was always to use this movie as a launching pad. If enough people show up to this, we’ve already talked about the plot of the third movie, and how the end of the third movie would expand the universe to a Star Wars/Star Trek-style [franchise] where you can go in many, many different directions. You can go main canon, you can go spin-offs, you can go one-offs. Yeah, that’s the plan. And I would love to see an animated TV show based on this.” </td><td style="vertical-align: bottom; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:right; padding:3px;"> ” </td></tr></table><p>Basically nothing new from what Guillermo del Toro was saying prior the 2015 delay, outside of the fact that everyone is calling it a "Cinematic Universe" now in light of other franchise attempts to become a "universe" (and failing). Honestly, I'd <i>like</i> to see more comic books and that fabled animated series that was supposed to come out, but I'd rather not see another movie get produced. </p><p><big>Pacific Rim: Uprising director hopes sequel sparks 'bigger' franchise</big> </p> <div class="center"><div class="floatnone"></div></div> <table class="cquote" style="margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color:transparent; width:auto;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; padding:3px;"> “ </td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding:3px; font-style:italic;"> Guillermo del Toro was talking about a sequel to Pacific Rim even before the first one hit theaters in 2013. Ater years of will-they-won’t-they, this tradition continues with director Steven DeKnight (Marvel’s Daredevil). Sitting alongside cast members John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Burn Gorman, and Cailee Spaeny during the film’s New York Comic Con panel on Friday, DeKnight revealed his hope for a much larger Pacific Rim franchise. <p>“Guillermo set the table and it was a fantastic visual feast,” he said, “and we wanted to make sure we honored what he created. … This is hopefully the first step in a bigger Pacific Rim franchise.” Growing up in the age of peak Godzilla movies, DeKnight was eager to play in the world Del Toro created — and he’s getting his chance with Uprising, which is set 10 years after the events of the first film. </p><p>“We really wanted to explore the universe and look at the first movie and expound on it,” he explained. “We actually, there are references to the first movie and what happened in the first movie. … People try to understand why the kaiju attacked, why the aliens sent the kaiju.” </p><p>John Boyega — who stars as Jake Pentecost, the estranged son of Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost — wanted to take on an executive producer role with the film as well because “Pacific Rim is one of the only franchises that has this hopeful, the fans are hopeful about it.” As a fan of the first film, he remembered the “back and forth about whether a sequel was gonna happen.” </p><p>“This is sacred ground, this is sacred science fiction ground,” he emphasized before acknowledging, “Moving forward, we can’t go back and ignore what Del Toro has done.” </p><p>But before we start speculating about what we could potentially see from a larger cinematic universe, we have to get through Uprising. Entertainment Weekly unveiled the first look and details at the new Jaeger robots, and DeKnight drifted a little deeper into what’s coming in the sequel. The robots are… </p> </td><td style="vertical-align: bottom; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:right; padding:3px;"> ” </td></tr></table><div class="center"><figure class="article-thumb tnone show-info-icon" style="width: 350px"> <figcaption> <p class="caption">The Jaegers in <i>Pacific Rim: Uprising.</i></p> </figcaption></figure></div> <p></p><blockquote>

• Gipsy Avenger: An upgrade to Gypsy Danger, this Jaeger has a ton of new tricks, including The Gravity Swing. According to DeKnight, it “allows Gypsy to reach out [and] grab buildings, cars and hurl them at the kaiju.”
• Bracer Phoenix: “The real brute force” requires three pilots, one of which can drop down into its chest to operate a set of guns collectively called the “Vortex Canon.”
• Saber Athena: “The most advanced Jaeger in the fleet,” but also “a little experimental” and “incredibly swift.” Its main weapons are “a pair of plasma swords.”
• Titan Redeemer: This Jaeger “uses something we like to call the Ball of Death.” The weapon is “attached to the end of his arm” and is, as DeKnight says, “pretty damn cool.”
• Guardian Bravo: Another “brute” enforcer, which uses an arc whip that “really smacks the hell out of some Jaegers.”
• Then there’s “a little guy” named Scrapper, who’s been “slapped together” by some of the people “stealing PPDC technology.”

</blockquote> <table class="cquote" style="margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color:transparent; width:auto;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; padding:3px;"> “ </td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding:3px; font-style:italic;"> <p>On the human side, Boyega leads the charge as Jake. The star of Star Wars: The Last Jedi didn’t realize he was going in for a meeting with Legendary Pictures to discuss a role as the on-screen son to Elba. “I saw myself in a Jaeger suit and I was like, ‘Oh crap, this is what you brought me in for!'” Jake isn’t eager to step into his father’s shoes, but will learn that “the Pentecost name still means something.” </p><p>“We all work as a unit,” Boyega said, “and Jake Pentecost, he doesn’t exist without the other characters.” Some of these other characters include Eastwood as Nathan Lambert (“he’s the tip of the spear, he’s a pilot, he’s one of the best”), Spaeny as Amaro (“she’s super badass”), and Gorman returning as Dr. Herman Gottlieb opposite Charlie Day’s Newt Geiszler. </p><p>In Uprising, there is a new generation of Jaeger pilots who were born in the chaos of the first wave of kaiju attacks; it’s not just PDCC anymore. The organization has become “an international fighting force.” It’s now “all of humanity working together.” </p><p>Nathan is Jake’s best friend, but they have to work past their falling-out if they’re to Drift together as co-pilots. Amaro, meanwhile, lost her parents in the earlier attacks and is convinced the monsters will come back. “She’s taken it upon herself to dive into the Jaeger tech,” Spaeny said — meaning, she’s building her own artillery so she’s “ready to fight.” </p><p>Uprising marks a lot of firsts for Spaeney. “This is my first film,” she said. “First Comic Con, first time being to New York.” But she dove into the material to make sure she did right by the fans. “I really wanted to know all the thing that went behind the Jaeger science,” she said. </p><p>As for Herman, it’s not so much that he’s stopped working with Newt. It’s just that Newt is working in the private sector and Herman is still with the PDCC, except this time he has a much larger budget. So he can “do lots of things in dark corners and sort of get away with it,” Burn said. But Herman is “a man very much affected by what happened in the first movie in terms of his Drift and his communication with the kaiju.” </p><p>Though Day wasn’t present for the panel, he sent a video message for the fans gathered in the auditorium at Madison Square Garden. The actor had some ideas for a potential theme song for the movie, the first of which poked fun at some lingering questions fans had about 2013’s Pacific Rim. “Do you know you have a sword?” he sang in reference to Gypsy Danger’s secret weapon. “Don’t forget you have a sword, you might want to use your sword really early in the movie.” </p><p>DeKnight emphasized that the larger message of Uprising is about unity and diversity. </p><p>“One of the important things we wanted to show in this movie is that it doesn’t matter where you’re from, it doesn’t matter who your parents are, it doesn’t matter the color of your skin, your religion, your sexual orientation, you can make a difference and you can actually be a hero, that it’s the human inside the Jaeger that is super. It’s you times a thousand.” </p><p>Pacific Rim: Uprising will re-cancel the apocalypse on March 23, 2018 </p> </td><td style="vertical-align: bottom; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:right; padding:3px;"> ” </td></tr></table>

<p>Up front: How many users that frequent the Pacific Rim Wiki on any basis has read <i>Pacific Rim: Tales From The Drift</i>? Because, for lack of a better word, this an area in the wiki that definitely requires an update and summaries for its receptive articles and characters. </p><p>At the moment, I'm unable to get the trade or single issues myself, so I can't really do anything about that. But, if anyone else has read the comic, please try to update the articles that already exist with summaries. That would be a huge help to the Wiki. </p>

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</p> <dl><dt>From Legendary.com </dt></dl><table class="cquote" style="margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color:transparent; width:auto;"><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; padding:3px;"> “ </td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding:3px; font-style:italic;"> Legendary Comics announces exciting new titles to arrive in the Fall. <p>Guillermo del Toro promised more adventures from the world of Pacific Rim - and he has delivered. Legendary is taking fans back to the frontlines of a larger-than-life battleground with Pacific Rim: Tales from the Drift, the official new comic series presented by director Guillermo del Toro, featuring a story from Pacific Rim screenwriter Travis Beacham. A continuation of the bestselling graphic novel Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero, the new Pacific Rim comic series will feature Jaegers never before seen in combat, squaring off against all-new Kaiju creatures. </p><p>Legendary is also proud to launch two original titles. First is the riveting espionage thriller Black Bag, starring Legendary Comics' first female action hero. This gripping series about a suburban wife-turned-covert government assassin comes from writer Chris Roberson, creator of the breakout comic iZombie (recently adapted into a network TV series), and features art from fast-rising talent JB Bastos, known for his standout work on Night Trap. </p><p>Finally, Legendary is excited to partner with acclaimed writer Steven Grant to bring you Cops For Criminals, a daring new crime-thriller series about a federal agent forced to find true justice in the criminal underworld. Pete Woods, whose long and storied career includes iconic franchises such as Deadpool, Catwoman and Robin, returns to pencil, ink and color the title. </p><p>To celebrate these launches, Legendary is also giving fans the chance to win an exclusive page of original artwork from the upcoming Pacific Rim: Tales from the Drift. Participants are invited to enter at PacificRimComicArt.com to win this one-of-a-kind prize. </p> </td><td style="vertical-align: bottom; width:20px; font-size:36px; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight:bold; text-align:right; padding:3px;"> ” </td></tr></table><dl><dt>Release Details </dt></dl><p>Release Date: November 2015
Presented by: Guillermo del Toro
Story by: Travis Beacham
Writer: Joshua Fialkov
Artist: Marcos Marz
Colorist: Marcelo Maiolo
Format: 4 issue monthly series </p>