Steve DeKnight tog ju som vi alla vet över uppdraget som regissör av den kommande uppföljaren när Guillermo del Toro hoppade av och inför premiären har han nu börjat prata lite om processen och hur han ser på den färdiga produkten. Tydligen var filmen "flabby" när de först hade klippt ihop den första versionen vilket gjorde att teamet lade mer tid än beräknat på att sitta i klipprummet och frisera till Pacific Rim Uprising ganska ordentligt.
"The movie was a little flabby to start with. The script was much bigger. When we got into the editing room, I think the editor's cut was about two and half hours long. My director's cut was two hours and 18 minutes. And when I signed on to the movie, I told Legendary I love this genre, but I don't think this story in this world should be longer than two hours. So we knew we were flabby. So we got in there and did some hacking and slashing, some of it painful, some of it less painful, to get it down."
Steve pratar i samma intervju även lite om det faktum att det fanns hela tre olika manus för Pacific Rim 2 när han skrev på för rollen som regissör:
"There were actually three scripts when I came on board. Over the years they had developed three different stories, all vastly different. And I took some inspiration from all the scripts. There was an evil Jaeger called Black Maria in the original script. It was actually piloted by, I think in one version, there's a pair of sisters from Tijuana. But I took that idea and I thought, well, you know, if you're going to crack it open, why not build a mystery of who's piloting it and then crack it open and it's a Kaiju brain? So there were little bits and pieces like that, but we started pretty much from whole cloth. Legendary really wanted to go in a bit of a different direction." Länk
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