Legendary‘s Pacific Rim collection has landed at Amazon MGM Studios. The 2 studios will adapt the IP collectively (with Legendary in first place) for Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service.
The Pacific Rim TV venture, presently in growth, is the primary from Legendary’s first-look tv cope with Eric Heisserer and his Chronology banner. Heisserer will write and government produce the collection.
The Pacific Rim universe first launched in 2013 with the Guillermo del Toro-directed function movie of the identical title. The title has since expanded into animated tv (Pacific Rim: The Black), comedian books, novels, gaming and toys. In 2018, Steve S. DeKnight wrote and directed a second function movie within the franchise: Pacific Rim: Rebellion.
The unique Pacific Rim starred Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman. Collectively, they fought an ongoing conflict between humankind and monstrous sea creatures. Victory was not sufficient, we guess, because the battle raged on simply 5 years later in Rebellion with John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny and Burn Gorman. Boyega performed the son of Elba’s character for the OG movie; Kikuchi, Day and Gorman reprised their roles.
Pacific Rim: Rebellion marked DeKnight’s debut as each a function author and director. DeKnight makes all of the Spartacus stuff for Starz.
Heisserer most lately served because the showrunner, government producer and author of the Netflix fantasy collection Shadow and Bone, which relies on Leigh Bardugo’s worldwide bestselling Grishaverse novels. Beforehand, he wrote the Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi thriller Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Finest Tailored Screenplay in addition to WGA and Critics’ Alternative Awards in the identical class. He additionally wrote Netflix thriller Hen Field starring Sandra Bullock.
Legendary Tv and Amazon MGM Studios are additionally in growth on a Murdle collection, a scripted adaptation of G. T. Karber’s assortment of murder-mystery puzzles. Legendary Tv can be behind present collection Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (for Apple TV+), Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Netflix), Dune: Prophecy (HBO/Max), Drops of God (Apple TV+), Vanda (Hulu) and You Would Do It Too (Disney+ and Apple TV+).