For the first time since 2018,Pacific Rimis getting a sequel. Upon the original movie becoming a surprise box office hit and garnering a cult following in 2013,Pacific Rim: Uprisinghit theaters five years later. Unfortunately, thebig-screen sequel was not as good, but now, the franchise is getting a second chance.
Legendary Comicsconfirms they will be releasingPacific Rim: Final Breach, a three-volume graphic novel series that will be written by Joshua Fialkov and EJ Su. The first volume’s release can currently be supported onKickstarter. Readers can get a closer look at Su’s cover art below.
In addition, the news comes with a synopsis of the story to come, found below:
Humanity faces its ultimate threat as the Precursors unleash a new wave of devastating Kaiju assaults on Earth in Pacific Rim: Final Breach! After years of failed attempts to enter the Anteverse, the trans-dimensional realm from which all Kaiju emerge, Jake Pentecost and Hermann Gottlieb conceive a daring last-ditch plan whose success hinges on finding legendary Jaeger pilot Raleigh Becket—the only human being to ever survive behind enemy lines. Living in exile off the grid, Raleigh must choose assured annihilation or confront his past and team up with a new generation to pilot the brand-new Gipsy Destroyer, the last Jaeger standing. Tensions escalate and old wounds reopen as the PPDC finally crosses the breach to confront what lies on the other side… It’s time for humanity to meet its true enemy and cancel the apocalypse once and for all.
As the story is available for pre-order now, thisPacific Rimsequel has the opportunity to give fans exactly what they were hoping to see fromUprising.
Pacific Rim Returns with Upcoming Graphic Novel, Final Breach
Pacific Rim: Final Breach Volume One by Joshua Fialkov and EJ Su.
The first volume ofPacific Rim: Final Breachis estimated to release in October 2025, while the second volume is expected the following fall in 2026, and then fall in 2027 for Volume Three.This wouldn’t be the last time thePacific Rimfranchise hit the market in graphic novel form. Previously, Legendary Comics released a prequel centered around the early days of the Kaiju War inPacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero,which wasunveiled in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, in 2013.
Subsequently, Legendary would releasePacific Rim:Tales from the Driftin 2015, set during the first movie, andAftermath, bridging the gap between both movies.Final Breachwill serve as a continuation of both movies, although it remains unclear for the time being how or if the graphic novel will be tied in to the television seriescurrently in development at Amazon Prime. In either case, it is clear that this new series of graphic novels will follow the canon of the movies.
Pacific Rim’s New Graphic Novels Will Finally See the Return of Raleigh Becket
The Fan-Favorite Protagonist Missed Out on Pacific Rim: Uprising
One of the reasons whyPacific Rim: Uprisingwas disappointing for fans was because it lacked an appearance from the beloved main character from the original, Raleigh Becket. Largely due to scheduling conflicts with another movie,Papillon, Charlie Hunnam wasn’t available. Thankfully, the beauty of the comic industry shows that scheduling conflicts and budgetary concerns need not matter in a graphic novel. Raleigh will return for this newPacific Rimtrilogy, delivering to fans something they’ve been waiting to see from a sequel for years.
