"Pacific Rim" lead star Charlie Hunnam confirmed during his interview with Yahoo Comic-Con 2016 that he will no longer lead the sequel entitled "Pacific Rim: Maelstrom."

Hunnam, who played as the Jaeger pilot Raleigh Becket in Guillermo de Toro's 2013 sci-fi film, said that he will not be able to make it on the sequel of the films because of his tight schedule and Hollywood politics.

The 36-year-old actor will be starring in the movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword," directed by Guy Ritchie, which is set to be released on March 24, 2017.

"There was one incarnation of this sequel that involved me heavily, but I was unavailable. They have a very definite schedule that they have to film because of the politics and business surrounding filmmaking," Hunnam told Yahoo.

"Sometimes noncreative decisions will dictate how something unfolds, which seems ass-backwards in the fact that we're making art, or at least aspiring to make art. It ended up being unfortunately something that we couldn't remedy, because by the time they got their schedule fully realized then I wasn't available."

Hunnam hoped, however, that the sequel will dig more on the story and the characters which he considered lacking on the first version of the film.

"I think world creation and monster creation and all that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling...Although we tried very hard on Pacific Rim to marry those two elements, I do feel like ultimately it got weighed heavier on the side of spectacle than storytelling," he told Entertainment Weekly.

The sequel will be starred by John Boyega of "Attack the Block," "Star Wars: Episode VIII," playing the son of Idris Elba's character Stacker Pentecost, and Scott Eastwood of the movies "The Longest Ride" and "Suicide Squad."

"Pacific Rim 2" will be out in the cinemas on February 23, 2018, except that it will be directed by Steven S. DeKnight instead of its original director, Guillermo de Toro.