{"id":29482,"date":"2025-04-18T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29482"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T02:56:03","slug":"pacific-rim-series-being-developed-by-legendary-and-amazon-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29482","title":{"rendered":"Live-Action &#8216;Pacific Rim&#8217; Series Being Developed By Legendary and Amazon MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Photo by Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture &#8211; \u00a9\u00a02013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures Funding, LLC<\/p>\r\n<p>A live-action <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1663662\/\"><em><strong>Pacific Rim<\/strong><\/em><\/a> TV series is now reportedly being developed at Prime Video as part of an arrangement between Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios. The upcoming series is being written and executive-produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2104063\/\">Eric Heisserer<\/a> under his Chronology banner.<br \/><br \/><em><strong>Pacific Rim<\/strong><\/em> will be the first title in the Chronology-Legendary series. No details about the plot has yet been released, but it has been reported that the show will serve as a prequel to later films. In the <em><strong>Pacific Rim<\/strong><\/em> series, a multidimensional rift has opened on the Pacific Ocean floor, unleashing an influx of monsters known as <em>kaiju<\/em> into the world. To combat the <em>kaiju<\/em>, humans deploy giant robots called Jaegers.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s been twelve years since the debut of the original film in the franchise, directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0868219\/\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a> from a screenplay he wrote with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2012438\/\">Travis Beacham<\/a>. That film grossed more than $400 million worldwide. In 2018, a sequel titled <em><strong>Pacific Rim Uprising<\/strong> <\/em>made its debut, written and directed by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0215299\/\"> Steven S. Deknight<\/a>. It was followed by an anime series, <em><strong>Pacific Rim: The Black<\/strong><\/em>, which aired on Netflix in 2021 and 2022. The original Pacific Rim starred Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman.<\/p>\r\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/><br \/>Eric Heisserer had previously served as writer, executive producer, and showrunner for Netflix\u2019s <em><strong>Shadow and Bone<\/strong><\/em> TV series, as based on the <em>Grishaverse<\/em> young adult novels. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017 for Best Adapted Screenplay, for the film <em><strong>Arrival<\/strong><\/em>. He also racked up feature-writing credits for <em><strong>Bird Box<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Lights Out<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Hours<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Bloodshot<\/strong><\/em>, and the 2010 remake of<em><strong> A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/><br \/>In a related development, Legendary TV and Amazon MGM Studios are collaborating with Pacesetter Productions in creating a series based on the <em><strong>Murdle<\/strong> <\/em>murder-mystery puzzles by B. T. Karber. Legendary is also making <em><strong>Monarch<\/strong><\/em>, part of the live-action Monsterverse series for Apple TV+. Other shows being produced include <em><strong>Dune: Prophecy<\/strong><\/em> for Max and <em><strong>The Legend of Lara Croft<\/strong><\/em>, an animated series for Netflix.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out other articles by Edward.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture &#8211; \u00a9\u00a02013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Legendary Pictures Funding, LLC A live-action Pacific Rim TV series is now reportedly being developed at Prime Video as part of an arrangement between Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios. 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