Pacific Rim - By Guillermo del Toro. July 2013.

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You missed the UK.

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looks an interesting film.
 
1st TV SPOT
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The first Pacific Rim Movie TV spot has aired and packs a Kaiju sized punch! Reviews of the film have been nothing but spectacular, praising Guillermo del Toro and his work. As we await the release of the WonderCon trailer to be released, enjoy this first TV spot!
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Do you see that?

Speed - 10
Power - 10
Armour - 9
Confirmed kills - 11

Australia, we be awesome.

Odds are that Striker Eureka gets destroyed first. The premise of the film hinges on an untrained rookie pilot paired with a washed-out veteran aboard an out-dated model - Gipsy Danger - and forced into battle when humanity becomes desperate. What could be more desperate than the best model being completely destroyed in the heat of battle?
 
This is the first proper kaiju movie from Hollywood right? 💡
Other than Godzilla (1998) of course, which didn't feature epic mecha vs monster battles.
 
It's difficult to say if it will be a "proper" film until we actually see it.

Also, there are apparently two more Jaegers in the film that have yet to be revealed, "Tacit Ronin" and "Diablo Intercept". That brings the total up to seven.
 
These two one may be from South America, Chile, being more specific
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It says about the oninaba incident and that a worldwide grup of actionists are disposed to divert 19'647,000,000 Chilean pesos (About 41 million dollars) to accelerate the montage of the Lima Shatterdome, which will host the two Jaegers Tacit Ronin and Diablo Intercept

So maybe this two Jaegers would be Peruvian or Colombian and Chilean (or maybe both will be from Chile)
 
Actually, I'm guessing that Tacit Ronin is a second Japanese Jaeger. Most of that is down to the name, but within the world of the film, their first Jaeger - Coyote Tango - was one of the original Jaegers. Its statistics are very poor in comparison to the other Jaegers, and it's only got one pilot (compared to two for the others and three for Crimson Typhoon), which suggests that it's an older model. It stands to reason that Japan would want a second Jaeger.

The letter also says that the money is being put towards the "Lima Shatterdome", and specifically says that it will host two Jaegers. I suspect that might mean that Lima is going to be used as a base of operations for a contingent of Jaegers. From what we've seen in the trailers, they seem to work in pairs.

As for Diablo Intercept, that could be a second American Jaeger. Gipsy Danger is supposedly obsolete, which suggests that there is an upgraded model out there. It could also be Korean - the Korean Peninsula is in the Pacific Rim, and they would have the economy to build a seventy-five metre walking battle tank of death. Peru, on the other hand, doesn't.
 
Guillermo del Toro took to the stage at the Anaheim Convention Center today for a WonderCon panel focusing on his upcoming sci-fi actioner Pacific Rim.

Featuring a cast that includes Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman and more, Pacific Rim takes place in a not-too-distant-future where humanity has come under attack from enormous monsters known as Kaiju. To combat the creatures, all the nations of the world have constructed mechanical colossuses called Jaegers.

The panel opened with a brand-new trailer that Del Toro said was constructed specifically for WonderCon and isn't planned for release anywhere else (besides one more screening of it at the upcoming CinemaCon). With a tagline, "Go big or go extinct," the trailer offered quite a few shots that has the audience screaming with excitement including one where a Jaeger actually drags an oil tanker out of the ocean and, lifting it up like a bat, swings it into a Kaiju attacker.

The trailer offered a good look at Ron Perlman's character, who Del Toro says is a black market Kaiju organ dealer. Shown in sunglasses and a smoking jacket, his character harvests the remains of the epic beasts and sells them for their medicinal properties.

Also showcased in the new trailer is Charlie Day's Dr. Newton Geiszler. An expert on the creatures, Geiszler is described by Del Toro as looking throughout the film like "Rick Moranis, J.J. Abrams and the shorter brother of Bradley Cooper."

"If you want to stop them, you have to understand them," Geiszler says in the footage.

"Or we could just blow them to pieces," Charlie Hunnam's Raleigh Becket shoots back.

Production on Pacific Rim called for the construction of four-story Jaegar sets on gimbals so that, during combat sequences, the actors would actually be shaken. Del Toro says that, while all the actors enjoyed the practical effects, the constant shaking took its toll on everyone but Rinko Kikuchi.

"That's why guys never give birth," he says. "They're crybabies. We'd go extinct as a species. They'd be like, 'F- that!'"

The final film has nine different Jaegars and 12 different Kaijus, although far more made it to various stages of design.

"We designed a lot and, every week, we would do an American Idol," Del Toro continues. "...Those that survived were refined further."

The panel concluded with the reveal of the Alex Ross cover to the upcoming tie-in graphic novel Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero.
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=102174#gGIJ2zXreEmsbcGY.99
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Source : WonderCon: Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim Panel
 
I like to imagine that the process of creating a Jaeger started with combining random words together to form names - like, say, Apollo Siren or Heretic Virtue or Ranger Orbit and so on - and going from there.
 
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It's difficult to say if it will be a "proper" film until we actually see it.
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Yeah, I should've put that better. My bad. :ouch:

What I meant to say was, other that Godzilla and now this, were there any other attempts by Hollywood at Kaiju films?

I remember watching an old black and white film about a giant octopus coming out of the ocean but that doesn't count now, right? :sly:
 
Part of the problem is that the kaiju films are very much rooted in modern Japanese culture. Godzilla itself is the personification of nuclear destruction; it was created in the aftermath of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and is designed to play on the fear of that happening again. The character's backstory always incorporates some degree of radiation, usually a mutation that comes about as a result of nuclear testing. As the franchise became evermore popular, Godzilla evolved to be something of a hero, but the origins and intent remains the same. That's something that the 1998 film didn't understand.
 
Let's forget for a second that Furi could embed that, and bask in the awesomeness of that trailer. :drool:
 
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Let's forget for a second that Furi could embed that, and bask in the awesomeness of that trailer. :drool:
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Those kaiju look massive compared to the Jaegers!
 
This takes so many elements of stuff I like and puts them together I just cannot say no.

Del Toro is also doing Monster into a live action thingie later in the year. Quite dynamic and quite the otaku :crazy:
 
For those of you who are slow like me and can't take in all the awesomeness from the trailer, here is a link to some HD stills.

http://cinemavine.com/pacific-rim-wondercon-trailer/

I don't know about you guys but, the blue tentacle head kaiju at the end of the trailer looks very realistic. As in, it doesn't look like something created with CGI but looks more like a puppet instead.
 

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