While it hasn't been outright cancelled , Universal Pictures confirmed today that Pacific Rim 2 has been put on indefinite hold and will not be opening in 2017 as originally planned.

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Few details regarding the reasons why the film has been put on hold have been provided, other than it will allow the "creative team [to] continue in its efforts to exceed the amazing experience of the first film."Director Guillermo del Toro recently spoke about the current status of the film, explaining that another project currently has his attention, but the sequel is not facing cancellation."[Pacific Rim 2 is] not cancelled,” he told IGN in an interview . “I'm gonna do a little movie in between, if [the studio] deem[s] to approve it. But in the meantime we're turning in a budget and a script in three weeks [on Pacific Rim 2]. So it's still active. I still have my producer working on the budget and I still have the writer working on the script.”Released in 2013, Pacific Rim is an action epic starring Charlie Hunam, Rinko Kikuchi, and Idris Elba in which giant monsters battle giant robots in a holy combination of sci-fi violence. Read IGN's Pacific Rim review for our thoughts on the film.

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