Now that the PS4 game "Silent Hills" is officially cancelled, Guillermo del Toro can focus his full attention on "Pacific Rim 2." In an interview with Collider, he gave an overview of what happens after the first film. An animated series will serve as a prequel to "Pacific Rim 2."

Here's a brief premise of the "Pacific Rim 2" plot according to the director via Collider.

"It's a few years after the first one. It's not an immediate follow-up," del Toro clarifies. "It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after - what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It's quite a jump." 

Also, a "Pacific Rim" animated series will cover the time skip of the first movie to the second. He said that new jaegers will make its way in the series. (via Collider)

"We are right now in the middle of talking and negotiating with a few Japanese companies for the animation.  We are talking to a couple of show runners that have a strong animation background, [we're] casting the writers room.  What's great is it's a great set-up and a link between the first movie and the second movie.  It really enhances the mythology of the characters; we have cameos of characters from the first movie, but mostly it's a new set of characters.  New jaegers, except for one or two, [and] new kaijus.  It's really fun," the director said.

He is also excited to introduce all new characters and pilots, which could mean these characters, will likely have a human counterpart who will represent them in "Pacific Rim 2."

"We're going for a long arc, so the idea is to show a group of characters-we have pilots, functional jaegers, but we have all these younger characters.  I really want to explore things that are complimentary to the things that I want to explore in the second movie: drift, what drifting does to you, what is needed to drift, a lot of stuff that I think is important, but also the jaeger technology, the kaijus being evolved, ideas about the precursors-the guys that control the kaijus.  We have a lot of leeway in 13 episodes and I wanna make it sort of in the same spirit of Pacific Rim, which is the ideal audience for Pacific Rim was young-very young, 11-year-olds and so forth-but with really beautiful design and stories that make these characters interesting in a way that I found them interesting in, for example, Year Zero, the graphic novel that we did.  And I think that's the basic thrust of the thing."