If you’re able to’t attend New York Comic-Con 2017 but still want to experience thePacific Rim Uprisingpanel, you’re in luck. Collider is the exclusive livestreaming partner with ReedPOP for NYCC, and you can watch thePacific Rim UprisingNYCC panel live right here on Friday, October 6th from 12pm-1pm ET. DirectorSteven S. DeKnightwill join starsJohn Boyega,Scott Eastwood,Burn Gorman, andCailee Spaenyto take the Madison Square Garden stage and offer fans their first tease of the sequel, as well as the world premiere of the debut trailer.
The follow-up stars Boyega as Jake Pentecost, the son ofIdris Elba’s character from the first movie, and the story takes place 10 years after the events ofPacific Rim. The Jaeger program has now evolved and expanded into a massive global defense force after the Battle of the Breach, which comes in handy when the Kaiju threat returns.
DeKnight co-wrote the film withT.S. Nowlin(The Maze Runner),Emily Carmichael(Adventures of Ledo and Ix) &Kira Snyder(The Handmaid’s Tale) andGuillermo del Tororemains onboard as a producer even though he departed the director’s chair during development.
July 24, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM- The Theater at Madison Square Garden
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Here’s the official synopsis forPacific Rim Uprising:
The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity inPacific Rim Uprising.
John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity’s victory against the monstrous “Kaiju.” Jake has since abandoned his training only to become caught up in a criminal underworld. But when an even more unstoppable threat is unleashed to tear through our cities and bring the world to its knees, he is given one last chance to live up to his father’s legacy by his estranged sister, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)—who is leading a brave new generation of pilots that have grown up in the shadow of war. As they seek justice for the fallen, their only hope is to unite together in a global uprising against the forces of extinction.
Jake is joined by gifted rival pilot Lambert (The Fate of the Furious’Scott Eastwood) and 15-year-old Jaeger hacker Amara (newcomer Cailee Spaeny), as the heroes of the PPDC become the only family he has left. Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they will set course for a spectacular all-new adventure on a towering scale.
