Pacific Rim – Jaeger Shots!

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Pacific Rim… is there a chance this won’t be awesome? Guillermo del Toro, the director of one of my favorite films in Pan’s Labyrinth, is coming at us on the science fiction side with Pacific Rim, which is basically monster versus robots piloted by man, which is just an automatic win pitch to me. Del Toro has tapped Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam (from Sons of Anarchy), Rinko Kikuchi, Clifton Collins Jr. and (of course) Ron Perlman. Above you see the Comic Con art just released for the film and a good shot at the robots, called Jaegers.

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 If you happen to have a Comic Con poster fetish, check out the Fringe Season 5 teaser from last week and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey poster that Peter Jackson just debuted. Here is the synopsis for Pacific Rim:

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 (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-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.

This bad boy is scheduled to smash  theaters next Summer.