Even though Guillermo del Toro won't be directing the sequel to Pacific Rim, the 2013 action-adventure film that pitted humans in enormous robots against equally enormous inter-dimensional monsters, the 51-year-old horror maestro will serve as a producer, so he's still keeping tabs on what's going on.

Aside from Steven S. DeKnight now being in the director's chair, screenwriters Emily Carmichael and Kira Snyder penning the most recent script, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega playing the son of the late Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba), we don't know all that much about Pacific Rim 2.

Although is reported that Charlie Hunnam or Rinko Kikuchi were expected to be back for the sequel, we still haven't heard a confirmation on their return. So, will they be back?

"As a producer I learned not to declare anything about a movie I’m not directing. I can tell you this — a lot of the cast from the first movie is coming back," del Toro told The Hollywood Reporter. "I leave those communications to Steven DeKnight. He’s not only a director, but he’s actually a guy I respect and admire and it’s his movie."

What does del Toro think of the addition of Boyega?

"I admire him tremendously. The idea for me is that this is a continuation of the great leadership character that was Idris Elba," he said. "It’s a very different character but I love the idea of having a main character who is not a white Anglo-Saxon guy. Before the heated conversation about diversity in film started we were doing Pacific Rim. And I think that universe is a huge proponent of that."

Legendary and Universal's Pacific Rim 2 will hit theaters on February 23, 2018.