Pacific Rim: New Breed

After being bullied into it, and, because I love the guy, I saw Pacific Rim with Pacific Jim last Sunday night at 11 or so.

And, while I thought it was big and dumb and fun and summer and action and etc, I don't really get why the internet is all grinding up on it.
I also don't understand how del Toro made something so...easy.

However, my opinions mean nothing (as do yours) and, after seeing the movie, I had a dream that night.
When I awoke, I used elements of said dream to create the plot line for the sequel to Pacific Rim.

Here it is:

Some years have passed and the Breach has been silent. It's been a time of celebration for the people of the world and exploration and discovery for its scientific community, who have been studying the findings of Dr. Geiszler and Dr. Gottlieb, trying to learn more about the kaiju and the world from which they originate.
In the aftermath of the events of Pacific Rim, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. has promoted the two doctors, who have retired the old jaegers in favor of creating kaiju/jaeger hybrids by integrating Hannibal Chau's black market kaiju collection business and also by discovering a means to clone certain kaiju organs*. These hybrids are stronger, faster and more maneuverable than the old jaegers and are able to utilize organic weaponry, like the acid spray and EMP.

As for the conflict, that comes from two sides; both a militant group of ex-jaeger pilots and technicians (consisting of Raleigh Becket, Mako Mori, Herc Hansen and Tendo Choi) who think using kaiju to enhance jaegers is abhorrent and an insult to the memories of their fallen comrades, and who are concerned about the kaiju infecting/corrupting/controlling the minds of the human pilots that drift with them, and creatures from another Breach that opens in the sky above where the first Breach opened on the ocean floor.
The militants use jaegers cobbled together from pieces of the old metal jaegers (called "scrap jaegers" or "scrappers") to attack and destroy the new hybrid factories*, but always do what they can to not harm civilians or the new crop of hybrid pilots; although they are vehemently against what is happening, some of the pilots are still their friends and they aren't interested in killing, merely stopping the creation of the hybrids.

The second Breach opens and, although people are freaked out, they are also confident that these new hybrids will be able to handle whatever comes through. What does come through are a different type of kaiju, not the same as those that came from the ocean floor Breach (Alpha Breach).
While the hybrids are able to fend off the creatures from the new Breach, they are only barely holding on. The doctors contact the leaders of the scrappers and they agree to work together to vanquish the threat.
The scrappers arrive and, with the hybrids, barely, and after a spectacular battle in which the different types of jaegers work in tandem, showing off a multi-jaeger drift**, thwart the invasion of the new kaiju.
Once this battle has ended, the pilots of the jaegers begin to patch things up with one another while the doctors send out teams to retrieve the leftover body parts for analysis; was this the first wave in another attack? A fluke? Creatures from yet another dimension looking to colonize the Earth? Must they start the clock again?

So.
The big twist.
As drifting with kaiju has become much easier thanks to the doctors' continued research, they are able to link up with a part of a new kaiju's brain and more clearly understand its thoughts and intentions.***
They realize that these new kaiju have been following the original kaiju, trying to stop them from breaching other dimensions and destroying them. They've always been one step behind them until the humans managed to close the first Breach, thus giving the neo kaiju enough time to catch up and offer assistance...assistance which the hybrid jaegers and scrappers just destroyed.
"But why would we need assistance? It's been years since the kaiju've attacked us..." asks Dr. Geiszler.
As the last word leaves his mouth, an alarm sounds: the Alpha Breach has reopened...along with three other identical Breaches scattered across the ocean floor.
Each one registering a triple signature.

Boom.

To be continued.

The third and final Pacific Rim movie (Pacific Rim: Into The Breach), focuses on the jaegers working with the neo kaiju to push back the oncoming invasion enough so that they can get operatives into their dimension in order to destroy it once and for all.
At some point in the second act, Dr. Geiszler and Dr. Gottlieb fall under the control of the old kaiju (turns out that too much drifting with them does allow mind control/corruption, like a build up of some poisonous substance) and they totally fuck things up by introducing a techno-organic virus that affects both the hybrids and the scrappers, making things more harrowing. Somehow, the doctors regain their own minds long enough to expose some sort of weakness that prolonged exposure to the kaiju has revealed to them, dying in the process.
There you go Hollywood, no need to thank me Guillermo, just a guy who saw your film and had a dream about it.

You're welcome.





* The "scrappers" and hybrids provide an excellent opportunity for del Toro to go crazy designing more walking awesome for fans to enjoy; the former looking less humanoid, more animalistic or with extra limbs and scar and so forth, while the latter might look more humanoid, but with organic kaiju appendages and such.

** One of the myriad advantages to the hybrids.

*** Though some might say this is too specific, I would love to throw in some Lovecraft here. Yes, yes, I know they all but had Cthulhu rise at the end of the first movie, but something simple, like having the new kaiju called the old kaiju the Great Old Ones or something like that. "There's no exact translation..." or "They have names, but they're just gibberish, unpronounceable...'Cu-hool-hoo'?"