I got the opportunity to catch up with Guillermo del Toro and he told me that two of the main characters in Pacific Rim 2 are Geiszler (Charlie Day) and Gottlieb (Burn Gorman). Shortly after the Television Critics Association panel for The Strain, Haleigh was part of a group of journalists who got to talk to del Toro and ask for specifics regarding Day and Gorman's roles in the film. Here's what he told them when asked if they're taking charge in the sequel instead of Charlie Hunnam's Raleigh Becket:

“No, no, no, Charlie Day has a great part but so does Charlie Hunnam. I think that everybody or most everybody that survived is back. The rest we killed. We killed half the cast.”

When the conversation shifted to the long-awaited Haunted Mansion, Del Toro broke down the challenges of getting a project off the ground:

"All you can do is develop the screenplays, send them in, get a reaction, get the budget, agree or disagree on budget and so forth. Every project goes through the same thing. People say why do you have five [movies in development]? I have five because one happens. Whenever I have dedicated myself to a single project for any length of time, I end up having three, four years where I don’t shoot. It’s happened twice already, so I live in a life of realities. I have to have these projects alive to hope and pray that one of them happen."