Netflix is teaming up with Legendary Television to bring about a television series based off the Pacific Rim film series. The new series is called Pacific Rim: The Black and it is expected to drop next month. Here is what you need to know about the upcoming web series:
Animated Web Series
The entire series has been animated, which was created by the Japanese animation company, Polygon Pictures. Even Though the series will follow the original story, this will be the first animated edition to the Pacific Rim franchise and maybe this fresh outlook will help to kickstart the franchise again.
Brother-Sister Piloting Duo
We have seen siblings pilot Jaegers (huge mechas which are used to fight the monsters Kaiju) before, but never a brother-sister combo. It will be interesting to see, and hopefully we will get to see how they get to be compatible, to work together and to pilot the huge machine.
New Creatures
In this animated web series, Australia has been completely taken over by the Kaiju and has now been abandoned. This has allowed the growth of new, smaller Kaijus which can come after people at a ground level and take them down as well as new land adapted Kaijus, who run on all fours limbs.
Different Storyline
Unlike the previous Pacific Rim movies, this television series will not be a militaristic war movie. Instead the animated project will be a disaster monster series that will follow two siblings in a Kaiju covered Australia. The brother and sister, who are looking for their parents in the now-desolate continent, happen upon a Jaeger during their search and decide to use it to find their parents.
Pacific Rim: The Black will premiere on Netflix on March 4th 2021. Check out the trailer for this upcoming animated series down below: