Although it’s yet to get a green-light, Guillermo Del Toro is currently hard at work on the script for Pacific Rim 2, which he says is full of "crazy ideas."

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“I don’t have the money, but I’m proceeding like it is happening” the writer-director told BuzzFeed while promoting new TV series The Strain at the Austin Television Festival. Del Toro revealed that his original collaborator – Travis Beacham – has moved on to oversee TV series Hieroglyph, but that he has found a new co-writer.“I’m working very hard with Zak Penn” he explained of his collaboration with the X2/Avengers/Incredible Hulk scribe. “We’ve been working for a few months now in secret. We found a way to twist it around.”Del Toro said that the film will follow on from the events of the first movie, and revolve around Raleigh (Charlie Hunnam) and Mako (Rinko Kikuchi).“Some people were wondering if we were going to do the prequel. I was never interested in doing that first wave of the invasion. I’m going for very new, very crazy ideas on the second one, which are very different from the first one – but you will really get great spectacle.”Before then Del Toro has period horror Crimson Peak out next year, which the film's producer is boldly calling his best film yet...

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