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 Pacific Rim is an upcoming film by Legendary Pictures, directed by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth). The story is that swarms of giant monsters (called Kaiju, the classic Japanese term) have started rising from deep in the ocean, reaking havoc across the globe resulting in the death of millions of lives. To combat the Kaiju, humanity develops a new kind of weapon: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even as the Jaegers prove nearly defenseless in the face of the onslaught, mankind is forced to turn to a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam), and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) to pilot an obsolete Jaeger and turn the tide. Basically, the film is Guillermo del Toro's big homage to Japanese Kaiju films, Japanese mecha anime/tokusatsu shows, and general science fiction mecha nerdery. The AI of the mecha is voiced by Ellen McLain, the voice of the Portal game series' GlaDOS, complete with the same voice filter. I think this is the first Hollywood film in some time that has an Asian (co)protagonist that wasn't a kung-fu film? The budget is pretty sizable ($200 mil), the action / special effects look good thus far, and it is confirmed that there will be rocket punches. Here's the trailer that just dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vKz7WnU83E&hd=1 It's set to release July 12, 2013. As the animod, I personally am pretty excited. More as it develops. Zorak fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Dec 13, 2012 |
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Dec 13, 2012 09:37
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Another one of the inspirations for the film was Goya's The Colossus. It's not hard to see the correlation, really. The sense of scale and size is definitely there. Has del Toro said specifically what films / works specifically inspired him to pay them homage with the film? I haven't seen anything yet. e: Also why does every trailer feel the need to have the BAWOOOO sound effect now.
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Dec 13, 2012 09:57
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Stanko-Prussian posted:
Warning: Going to win this one for the Gipper
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Dec 13, 2012 15:14
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Speaking of weird anime comparisons, it's sort of funny the random Godannar parallels in this. Mecha with spinning plasma drives in their chests piloted by two people fight monsters from the depths of the ocean not of our world. Different nations make their own huge honking robots to accomplish this. Ideally this would have less weird fanservice. Ideally.
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Dec 14, 2012 02:34
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