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From taking on the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, John Boyega has just vowed to take on another army of sci-fi monsters, the Kaiju; as he’s officially joined the cast of Pacific Rim 2.
Guillermo del Toro has stepped away from the director’s chair for the sequel to his giant-robots-vs-giant-alien-monsters film but will stay on as an executive producer, and has handed the reigns to Steven S. DeKnight (part-time TV director, best known for producing the Spartacus TV series’).
While saying how “proud and happy” he is to have Boyega aboard del Toro confirms the Star Wars star will be the “leading man”, playing the son of Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost, in the film which is currently known as Pacific Rim: Maelstrom (don’t be surprised should the title change before release), and aims to go into production later this year.
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Source: Legendary.
