Amazon Prime Video has Pacific Rim series in development

Legendary's Pacific Rim series has landed at Amazon MGM Studios. The Pacific Rim television project, currently in development, is the first project from Legendary's first-look television deal with Eric Heisserer (pictured) and his Chronology company. Heisserer will write and executive produce the series. The two studios will work together (with Legendary in the lead) to adapt the IP for Amazon's Prime Video streaming service.



The Pacific Rim universe began in 2013 with the eponymous feature film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The title has since expanded to include animated television (Pacific Rim: The Black), comics, novels, video games, and toys. In 2018, Steve S. DeKnight wrote and directed a second feature film in the franchise, Pacific Rim: Uprising.

The original Pacific Rim film starred Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, and Burn Gorman. Together, they fought an ongoing war between humanity and monstrous sea creatures. Victory was apparently not enough, as the battle continued just five years later in Uprising starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, and Cailee Spaeny. Boyega played the son of Elba's character in the original film; Kikuchi, Day, and Gorman reprised their roles.

Pacific Rim: Uprising marked DeKnight's debut as a feature writer and director. DeKnight produces all of the Spartacus series for Starz.

Heisserer most recently served as showrunner, executive producer and writer on the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling Grishaverse novels. He previously wrote the Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi thriller Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as WGA and Critics Choice Awards nominations in the same category. He also wrote the Netflix thriller Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock.

Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios are also developing a Murdle series, a scripted adaptation of G.T. Karber’s collection of murder mystery puzzles. Legendary Television is also behind the current series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (for Apple TV+), Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Netflix), Dune: Prophecy (HBO/Max) and Drops of God (Apple TV+).