PACIFIC RIM Is Basically ’25-Story High Robots Beating The Crap Out Of 25-story High Monsters’

If you wanna know what Guillermo del Toro‘s new movie PACIFIC RIM is about, all you gotta remember is this.. Giant Robots Vs. Giant Monsters .. Simple, right?! Ok, repeat after me! Giant Robots Vs. Giant Monsters is freakin’ awesome!
Principal photography takes place in Toronto and Wired chatted with the geeky filmmaker who’s always stoked about his projects and about monsters and creatures. This is what he said of the production so far..

“We start shooting next Monday on ‘Pacific Rim’,”
“which is a gigantic production for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. We are wrapping production on a smaller, very powerful horror film called Mama, which I am producing. Chuck and I are working on a series of books that I can’t talk too much about. But we started on that about two weeks ago. I’m still working on animation at DreamWorks. I’m keeping myself pretty busy.”

“We are working with actors that I absolutely adore,”
“Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman. It’s really, it’s a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crap out of 25-story-high monsters. We’re trying to create a world in which the characters are real and how it would affect our world politically, how it would affect the landscape if creatures like this really came out of the sea, etc.”

How cool is that! Of course we also expect a good story and I hope that shouldn’t be a problem when dealing with the man who gave us the haunting Pan’s Labyrinth.

PACIFIC RIM

Starring Charlie Hunnam and Charlie Day who plays a professor and also Idris Elba in a role was initially meant for Tom Cruise to play. Rinko Kikuchi plays Mako Mori, a young Japanese pilot of Jaegers, robotic creatures built to fight strange creatures attacking earth. Max Martini plays part of the resistance that fights the alien invasion.
Willem Dafoe will play a rogue scientist with expertise on alien creatures. Rob Kazinsky will play a member of the resistance team trying to defeat the invaders.
Also starring Clifton Collins Jr.
PACIFIC RIM is Legendary Pictures’ PG-13 sci-fi film written by Travis Beacham (Clash Of The Titans remake) with rewrite by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the boys behind 3 of SAW films
Here’s the logline…”Set in a future in which malevolent creatures threaten the earth, the planet must band together and use highly advanced technology to eradicate the growing menace.”
PACIFIC RIM opens May 10th, 2013