'Pacific Rim 2' SPOILERS: Guillermo del Toro's Animated Series Will Bridge Gap Between Monster Movies Before 2017 Release Date

By Jon Niles | Jul 10, 2014 02:08 PM EDT

When filmmaker Guillermo del Toro announced last month that Pacific Rim 2 would be hitting theaters on April 17, 2017, he also shared information on an animated series that would be produced before this sequel. According to a new interview with the Strain creator, this animated series will bridge the gap between the first movie and its sequel.

Del Toro recently shared some details on Pacific Rim 2. Click here to read more on that!

"It's a great set-up and a link between the first movie and the second movie," he told Collider in a recent interview. "It really enhances the mythology of the characters; we have cameos of characters from the first movie, but mostly it's a new set of characters. New jaegers, except for one or two, [and] new kaijus. It's really fun."

he went into some detail describing what he'd hope to accomplish with the animated series (which has yet to find a network to run on).

"We're going for a long arc, so the idea is to show a group of characters-we have pilots, functional jaegers, but we have all these younger characters," he explained. "I really want to explore things that are complimentary to the things that I want to explore in the second movie: drift, what drifting does to you, what is needed to drift, a lot of stuff that I think is important, but also the jaeger technology, the kaijus being evolved, ideas about the precursors - the guys that control the kaijus."

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