Great news for Pacific Rim fans .Guillermo del Toro and Legendary pictures has green lighted the sequel to the epic movie Pacific Rim and also Guillermo del Toro has announced an animation series based off the comics starting with the Year Zero 
Some notes taken from the announcement and Guillermo del Toro official website. The movie will be distributed by Universal since legendary parted ways with Warner Brothers and it looks like all the previous actors will return to action in the sequel or prequel as the rumor train is now spitting out. But as stated in his blogging page nothing is written in stone.
Ok enough about writing about wispers and rumors here is the facts as they are. Without further ado here is the man himself making the announcements.
More Details on Deltorofilms.com
Also See Legendary Films Home Page for up to date news as they are made available.