1. The High-Level Synopsis Set ten years after the Breach was sealed, the world has changed. The Kaiju threat is gone, but the Jaeger program has been privatized. John Boyega stars as Jake Pentecost (son of the original film’s hero, Stacker Pentecost), a washed-up Jaeger pilot scraping by on the black market. After a reckless stunt lands him in custody, he is forced back into the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC) to train a new generation of cadets—dubbed the "Jaeger Academy" brats.