Legendary‘s Pacific Rim series has landed at Amazon MGM Studios. The two studios will adapt the IP together (with Legendary in first position) for Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service.

The Pacific Rim TV project, currently in development, is the first from Legendary’s first-look television deal with Eric Heisserer and his Chronology banner. Heisserer will write and executive produce the series.

The Pacific Rim universe first launched in 2013 with the Guillermo del Toro-directed feature film of the same name. The title has since expanded into animated television (Pacific Rim: The Black), comic books, novels, gaming and toys. In 2018, Steve S. DeKnight wrote and directed a second feature film in the franchise: Pacific Rim: Uprising.

The original Pacific Rim starred Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Burn Gorman. Together, they fought an ongoing war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures. Victory was not enough, we guess, since the fight raged on just five years later in Uprising with John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny and Burn Gorman. Boyega played the son of Elba’s character for the OG film; Kikuchi, Day and Gorman reprised their roles.

Pacific Rim: Uprising marked DeKnight’s debut as both a feature writer and director. DeKnight makes all the Spartacus stuff for Starz.

Heisserer most recently served as the showrunner, executive producer and writer of the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone, which is based on Leigh Bardugo’s worldwide bestselling Grishaverse novels. Previously, he wrote the Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi thriller Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as WGA and Critics’ Choice Awards in the same category. He also wrote Netflix thriller Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock.

Legendary Television and Amazon MGM Studios are also in development on a Murdle series, a scripted adaptation of G. T. Karber’s collection of murder-mystery puzzles. Legendary Television is also behind current series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (for Apple TV+), Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Netflix), Dune: Prophecy (HBO/Max), Drops of God (Apple TV+), Vanda (Hulu) and You Would Do It Too (Disney+ and Apple TV+).