"Pacific Rim is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Guillermo del Toro based on a screenplay by Travis Beacham. The film is set in a world where soldiers piloting giant robots battle against giant monsters who have mysteriously risen five miles from beneath the ocean. The film will be a homage to Japanese giant monster films, known as Kaiju worldwide. Del Toro has said the film will be "a beautiful poem to giant monsters". -Wikipedia
Colossal movie on Kaijus and Robots, Del Toro's take on Japanese monster movies.
Unwilling to compromise the $150 million budget (and R rating) for his adpatation of H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness Universal decided to shelve the pic.
GDT read a treatment by Travis Beacham about monsters versus robots and developed the project as producer then switch to directing the film. Principal photography began in Toronto on November 14, 2011 and will continue into April 2012.
Ron Perlman who starred in Del Toro's Hellboy films joins the cast.
Effects by ILM, Music by Ramin Djawadi ( Iron Man and Game of Thrones)
Pacific Rim stars
Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Antrobus
Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori
Idris Elba as General Stacker Pentecost
Charlie Day as Newt Gotlieb
Ron Perlman as Hannibal Chow
Clifton Collins Jr. as Tendo Choi
Coming soon next year, July 12, 2013.
