Pacific Rim 2 will be a "different adventure" to the first movie, according to director Guillermo del Toro.
50-year-old del Toro confirmed that Charlie Day and Burn Gorman, who played squabbling scientists Geiszler and Gottleib, will be returning for the sequel, while revealing that the movie won't be an "immediate follow-up" to the original film.
Speaking to Collider, he said, "I think that two of our main characters like in the first one are Burn and Charlie. They are really, really - I mean, honestly, they are probably the guys I have the most fun writing along with Hannibal Chau so just from a purely selfish drive, I like writing them.
"You're gonna get a lot of that, but the Kaijus are very different and you're gonna see a very different type of the robots I think. It's gonna be quite a different adventure."
He added, "It's a few years after the first one. It's not an immediate follow-up. It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after - what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It's quite a jump."
Pacific Rim 2 is due to hit cinemas in 2017.
