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San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Pacific Rim Trailer Description and Q&A Factoids

Originally Posted by DreadCentral

Even though we're all still buzzing about the Godzilla trailer, the good folks in Hall H also got to check out the first trailer for the Guillermo del Toro creature fighting epic, Pacific Rim. Read on to hear about what you missed.

"Today we are ending the apocalypse" -Idris Elba in Pacific Rim

The trailer opened with a couple of older fellows with a metal detector walking in the snow. Said detector starts going crazy and they look up and there is a giant robot missing an arm. The words "To fight monsters/ We made monsters" flash across the screen.

All the while showing HUGE Kaiju like monsters destroying bridges, being shot at by jets, and then a giant robot (piloted by two pilots brain linked to each other controlling either the left or right hemisphere of the body). Robots punch monsters. Straight up wrestling moves. Think a live fight between Jet Jaguar and Chtulhu.

Q&A factoids:

-There will be rocket punches. Fucking rocket punches.
-There will be 9 different kaiju monsters, each with unique abilities.
-Ron Perlman and Charlie Day are playing scientist type characters.
-The CGI and sound is incredible. Cinematography is colorful and insane!
-No motion capture. Del Toro made sure all the robots and monsters were key framed.
-Look for the flick in theatres July 12th of 2013. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Rob Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Diego Klattenhoff star.

Travis Beacham's script is set in 2025, the 12th year of a war against alien creatures who reside in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The story finds a group of humans banding together to create and pilot massive robots to fight the giant creatures threatening to destroy Earth.

Apparently, the entire staff's going on a media blackout for the movie until the end of the year though, so any more news till December is unlikely