Guillermo del Toro compares Pacific Rim 2 to “home movies from your ex-wife”

Though Guillermo del Toro wrote, produced, and directed the first Pacific Rim movie, he’s revealed why he can never watch the sequel in a brutal comparison.

When a director puts their entire heart and soul into an original film, fans would expect them to return for that film’s direct sequel.

However, that wasn’t the case when it came to Guillermo del Toro and Pacific Rim, the sci-fi epic in which humans created giant robots to fight the sea creatures emerging from the ocean trying to threaten their way of life.

Though del Toro wrote, produced, and directed the first film, he did not return for the sequel and has now revealed why he refuses to watch Pacific Rim 2.

Del Toro says it hurts too much to watch Pacific Rim 2

While chatting with Collider during the 10th anniversary for Pacific Rim, del Toro revealed why he can’t watch his film’s direct sequel.

“I didn’t see the final movie because that’s like watching home movies from your ex-wife,” del Toro said, “It is terrible if they’re good and worse if they’re bad, or the opposite.”

You don’t wanna know. So, I didn’t see it. I did read the final script, and it was very different. Some of the elements were the same but very different.”

Del Toro also explained why he wasn’t involved in the making of Pacific Rim 2 stating, “We were getting ready to do it, it was different from the first, but it had a continuation of many of the things that I was trying to do. Then what happened is—I mean, this is why life’s crazy, right?—they had to give a deposit for the stages at 5 p.m. or we would lose the stages in Toronto for many months.”

So, I said, ‘Don’t forget we’re gonna lose the stages,’ and five o’clock came and went, and we lost the stages. They said, ‘Well, we can shoot it in China.’ And I go, ‘What do you mean we?’ [Laughs] ‘I’ve gotta go do Shape of Water.'”

Del Toro went on to direct The Shape of Water while Pacific Rim 2 was directed by Steven S. DeKnight, who is known for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Daredevil. Considering Shape of Water’s critical acclaim, it seems that he made the right choice in making that film instead.

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