Pacific Rim: Uprising ditches Raleigh in favor of a new character and the son of Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost from the first movie, Jake Pentecost, played by Star Wars' John Boyega.

Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman starred in the original, with John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, and Cailee Spaeny playing the leads in Uprising (Kikuchi and ...