A live-action Pacific Rim television series from Eric Heisserer (Shadow and Bone, Bird Box) based on Legendary’s epic giant robot film franchise is in development at Amazon, Deadline has learned. Legendary will produce the series as the lead studio for Prime Video, with Amazon MGM Studios.
As we previously reported, the project had been in development at Legendary. It is the inaugural project out of Legendary’s first-look television deal with Oscar-nominated Heisserer and his Chronology banner. Heisserer will serve as writer and executive producer on the series.
In the Pacific Rim universe, humanity fights monsters by creating monsters of their own. Faced with oblivion, humanity-built Jaegers—massive, mechanized warriors piloted by our bravest and brightest from around the world—to defend against an invasion of colossal trans-dimensional creatures known as the Kaiju.
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Launching in 2013 with the Guillermo del Toro-directed feature film of the same name, Pacific Rim has expanded into other media, including TV with the Netflix animated series Pacific Rim: Black.
Heisserer most recently served as the showrunner, executive producer, and writer of the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels. Previously, he wrote the Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi thriller Arrival, starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as WGA and Critics Choice Awards for the same category. He also penned the Netflix hit thriller Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock.
Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios recently announced the development of Murdle, a scripted series adaptation of G. T. Karber’s multi-volume collection of murder mystery puzzles. Amazon MGM Studios is co-developing and co-producing the series with Legendary and Pacesetter for Prime Video.
Variety was first to report the news.