Director Guillermo del Toro and Legendary Pictures presented fans with an exclusive look at their giant robots vs. giant monsters epic Pacific Rim at Saturday's WonderCon in Anaheim, California.
What exactly is Pacific Rim about? Here's the official synopsis to shed some light: "When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse."
Del Toro screened a trailer that was cut just for WonderCon and the forthcoming CinemaCon. It was heavy on Jaeger vs. Kaiju battles, which were insane. At one point a Jaeger has a showdown in the streets where it beats the crap out of a kaiju with an oil tanker, which it wields like a baseball bat! The movie just looks amazing; the top-notch visual effects are both photo-realistic and capture the weight and movement of what such giant entities might really be like. Charlie Day's hipster geek scientist refers to the Jaegers at one point as "two thousand, five hundred pounds of awesome."
Del Toro was clearly proud that his film used as many practical sets as it did, and spoke at length about them. The set for the interior of the Jaeger's head alone was four stories high! The actors playing the Jaeger pilots were strapped into machinery the size of a VW Bug that they had to "operate" day in and day out. All the male actors griped about the physically exhausting nature of it; only actress Rinko Kikuchi, said del Toro, didn't complain. This prompted the director to quip that if childbirth were left to men we'd be an extinct species.
Del Toro especially praised his pal and frequent collaborator Ron Perlman's performance in the film as Hannibal Chou, the lowest of the low of black market dealers. Hannibal traffics in kaiju organs as remedies for everything from disease to erectile dysfunction, proving that there's no bad situation that someone won't try to profit from. Del Toro said Perlman steals the show in a scenery-chewing performance.
Overall, Pacific Rim really is as epic and jaw-droppingly, nerdgasm-inducing awesome as its trailer suggests. We're definitely looking forward to seeing these massive Jaeger vs. Kaiju brawls on the big screen when Pacific Rim opens in 2D, 3D and in IMAX on July 12.
Source : ign[dot]com
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