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Pacific Rim Uprising Almost had the Villain as an Evil Twin


Pacific Rim Uprising had an interesting choice for a villain by making Charlie Day' Newt Geiszler a secret agent for the Kaiju. As it turns out, director Steven S. DeKnight was adamant about having Day in the picture, and he reveals what he would have done should Day have said no to doing the sequel.

Talking to ScreenRant, DeKnight explains:

"I was very adamant about the Charlie Day, Burn Gorman relationship, which I thought was really a key element to this movie that carried over from the first movie. There was a horrible 48-hour beginning period when we were gearing up that looked like we were going to lose Charlie Day due to a scheduling problem, and so had to come up with ideas: ‘OK, so if we lose Charlie Day, what happens?' And it became everything from, Charlie's ex-wife was the villain, to zany idea were [Dr. Herman] Gottlieb has a twin brother, who was the evil twin. But thankfully we worked out Charlie's schedule, because that's something throughout all of the drafts that pretty much stayed consistent was the Newt/Gottlieb dynamic and storyline."

In the first movie, Newt was one of the good guys who even had the idea to drift with a Kaiju brain so they could find out what they were all after. In the sequel, it turns out that the Kaiju have found a way to control Newt, and Newt had been drifting with a Kaiju brain on his free time.

Though some may declare Uprising a flop, I still thought that the story improved very well on the first film. There were more Kaiju/Jaeger fights, and each unique Jaeger had a time to shine. I'm just crossing my fingers that they get DeKnight to come back for a third movie.

Pacific Rim Uprising is now available on digital and will hit Blu-Ray June 19

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See Also: Pacific Rim 3: Director Reveals there was Supposed to be more to Mako's Arc

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