He’s definitely looking a bit down in the dumps for someone who’s presumably about to spend a large part of a movie beating the crap out of giant monsters in an equally giant, rad-looking robot.
Although set pictures of Boyega in action have been floating around for the past few months, the actor took to Twitter last night to give us our first official look at his character.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/828817860013154305
Still no full name, though—all we know about him is that he’s the son of Idris Elba’s character from the first film, the outstandingly named Stacker Pentecost. Here at io9 we’ve taken to calling him John Bo-Jaeger in the meantime*. Pacific Rim: Uprising is due to hit theaters February 23, 2018.
