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Del Toro's Pacific Rim is the Godzilla movie GINO wasn't

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Morn

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http://www.newsinfilm.com/2011/03/10/details-on-guillermo-del-toros-pacific-rim/

However, not much is known about Pacific Rim yet, other than it’s about giant monsters and will allow del Toro to create a “new world” of beastly creatures. That’s only halfway accurate. This project will give the Hellboy filmmaker the opportunity to create two worlds.

The first is an alternate version of Earth in the near future, decades after a historic date in November 2012 when the first kaiju, a towering Godzilla-like beast, emerged from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked the city of Osaka, Japan. The second is “The Anteverse,” another universe on the other side of that gaping portal, 5 miles below our ocean’s surface.

Since the first attack, the rim has been “spitting out” a variety of gigantic monsters at an increasing rate, which then stride out of the ocean and begin destroying sea-bordering cities, like Tokyo and Los Angeles. In order to combat these monstrous, otherworldly menaces, the military developed the “Jaeger” program, which trains teams of two pilots to jointly operate massive, building-sized mechanized suits of armor and high-tech weaponry.
Within the first act alone, we are given enough detailed background on the god-like Jaeger systems, its shared neural piloting system (called “pons”), and the relentless beasts. But Beacham is an absolute master at immediately establishing characters and their conflicts.

The central character is Raleigh Antrobus, 23, a skilled Jaeger pilot still wrestling emotionally with the loss of his co-pilot and biological brother, Yance, during a mission a year earlier. The ordeal has wreaked havoc on his mind spirit, leaving him with ghostly nightmares of the battle from the shared “pons” experience. After the initial setup, the damaged hero is recruited to re-join the task force in Tokyo, where pilots are in demand, and team with a fellow “leftover,” 22-year-old female Japanese pilot Mako Mori. Naturally, the language barrier (among other things) presents an issue for the out-of-sync duo, meaning an even steeper learning curve for the unprecedented pairing.

Meanwhile, Felicity “Flick” Kincaid, a journalist and Yance’s former fiancée, circles the globe (ours) to discover answers about this mysterious rift and the origins of its intensifying threat.

Without ruining any more surprises (past the first act), there are several different species of towering kaiju, each with their own unique characteristics, and the clashes between monster and machine are epic in scale. Beacham has even developed his own glossary and lingo for his characters, a blend of scientific and military jargon used to describe the elements of this fully fleshed out reality, much like the shorthand in Cameron’s Avatar or the developing mecha-warrior versus aliens movie All You Need is Kill.
The concept and Beacham’s script are unbelievable. With the right budget and creative control, this could very well be Guillermo del Toro’s Jurassic Park, a visual marvel with a pseudo-science backbone and massive, kaiju-sized appeal. Hell yes. Bring it on.
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PhoncipleBone

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Sounds awesome. I just hope the Del Toro curse does not follow it. It just seems that he is destined to be in perpetual turnaround on projects lately. And it is sad, as he has an amazing visual mind.
 
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FoneBone

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teruterubozu said:
Japan will probably be very sensitive to mass destruction sequences given the recent events. I predict some re-writes.
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The movie's not out for more than two years - none of this will matter by then.
 
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Morn

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BlazingDarkness said:
Still seems wholly inappropriate given the circumstances
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Yes because they waited until the earthquake to write the script.

They've been in pre-production for months.

These arguments are as dumb as the idiots who were demanding they change the title of The Two Towers after 9/11.

Lets go ban ALL Godzilla movies!
 
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Count Dookkake

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Morn said:
Yes because they waited until the earthquake to write the script.

They've been in pre-production for months.

These arguments are as dumb as the idiots who were demanding they change the title of The Two Towers after 9/11.

Lets go ban ALL Godzilla movies!
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I don't recall anyone in this thread suggesting the movie be banned or altered.

The only idiots posting so far seem to be the ones who mistake the acknowledgement of bad timing for the desire to quash a project.
 
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Morn

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krypt0nian said:
Terrible idea, that will inevitably not get made.
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They've been in pre-production for a while and start filming in September. Del Toro had to get behind the camera with something this year, and since Universal are cocksuckers; this is what he's making.
 
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I was going to be hesitantly intrigued that Del Toro's doing a script he didn't write (he's no good at it), but I'm not sure Travis Beacham is much better. We'll see, there were a lot of people involved in the boredom that was Clash of the Titans.

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They've been in pre-production for a while and start filming in September. Del Toro had to get behind the camera with something this year, and since Universal like to make profits; this is what he's making.
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Fixed for accuracy.
 
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teruterubozu said:
Japan will probably be very sensitive to mass destruction sequences given the recent events. I predict some re-writes.
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Yeah very bad timing.

But they should push ahead.
 
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Neuromancer

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I think the people of Japan have better things to do right now than get offended over news of this fantasy/scifi movie. Come the fuck on, people.
 
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Mononofu

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Neuromancer said:
I think the people of Japan have better things to do right now than get offended over news of this fantasy/scifi movie. Come the fuck on, people.
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That might be true but that doesn't mean the some American non news media outlet won't.
 
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BruceLeeRoy

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I'm so confused so is the creature in Del Toro's monster movie Godzilla or just a similar lizard creature. Is this the official Godzilla movie or are there 2 now?
 
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sphagnum

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BruceLeeRoy said:
I'm so confused so is the creature in Del Toro's monster movie Godzilla or just a similar lizard creature. Is this the official Godzilla movie or are there 2 now?
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The first is an alternate version of Earth in the near future, decades after a historic date in November 2012 when the first kaiju, a towering Godzilla-like beast, emerged from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked the city of Osaka, Japan.
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It's not Godzilla, they're just using it as a comparison.
 
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Oh my god I would kill you to see this movie right now.
 
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Messypandas

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sounds fucking nuts... An emotionally scarred pilot in a 100 foot mech suit? I'm all in. The only thing that worries me abit about this project is Del Toro ironically.
 
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Messypandas said:
sounds fucking nuts... An emotionally scarred pilot in a 100 foot mech suit? I'm all in. The only thing that worries me abit about this project is Del Toro ironically.
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sounds more like animu to me
 
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Puddles

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Maybe they can improve the script by making the protagonist a cowering, sniveling wretch of a human being who shies away from all human contact, can't stand up for himself, and jacks off to coma patients. Who needs a likable hero you can relate to?
 
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beelzebozo

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Puddles said:
Maybe they can improve the script by making the protagonist a cowering, sniveling wretch of a human being who shies away from all human contact, can't stand up for himself, and jacks off to coma patients. Who needs a likable hero you can relate to?
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this sounds like my kinda guy
 
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Amalthea

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Yes, very bad timing but there's a reason why the Japanese have created all those monster-movies.

And this sounds like a western director has finally found the right grip on this kind of film (hey it's Del Toro afterall).
 
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Puddles

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I am seriously stoked for this movie after reading that article in full. Wish it was coming out next year instead of 2013.
 
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