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Pacific Rim 2 Casts Star Wars' John Boyega in Lead Role

The Hollywood Reporter reported on Monday that actor John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Finn) will play the lead role in Pacific Rim 2, the planned sequel to Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham’s 2013 science-fiction robot film.
The sequel had been slated for August 2017, after previously being planned for April 2017.
Boyega’s character will be the son of Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost character from the first film.
Creator del Toro previously posted on his Twitter account in January that production on the sequel to his Pacific Rim film is “still going,” and that he will “remain w [sic] it in one way or another!”

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