Pacific Rim is a 2013 American science fiction monster film directed by Guillermo del Toro, and starring Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, and Ron Perlman.
The film is set in the 2020s, when Earth is at war with the Kaijus, colossal monsters which have emerged from an interdimensional portal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. To combat the monsters, humanity unites to create the Jaegers: gigantic humanoid mecha, each controlled by at least two pilots, whose minds are joined by a neural bridge. Focusing on the war's later days, the story follows Raleigh Becket, a washed-up Jaeger pilot called out of retirement and teamed with rookie pilot Mako Mori as part of a last-ditch effort to defeat the Kaijus.
The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.. It was released on July 12, 2013 including releases in 3-D and IMAX 3D, receiving generally positive reviews; the visual effects and action sequences were highly praised. The film performed poorly at the United States box office, but was highly successful in other territories and dominated the internaational boxoffice. It earned a worldwide total of more than $411 million, including $114 million in China, its largest market.
A sequel was announced in 2014, and is scheduled to be released by Universal Studios on April 7, 2017.
Director Guillermo Del Toro himself has announced that the sequel to Pacific Rim will release on April, 2017.
He stated that there are several scenes and ideas that did not fit into the first movie that would fit very well into the sequel. The director also plans to expand on many revelations from the first film such as the hive mind of the Kaiju and possibly combining Kaiju and Jaegers. Pacific Rim 2 will apparently also be arriving with an animated series, bringing the concept full circle. The main appeal of Pacific Rim was to take the bizarre and extreme robot vs. monster concepts of many anime series and bring them to life in a big budget western movie. Now Del Toro’s creation will be moving into the animated world that so clearly inspired it. Having an animated series as well as a full-blown sequel will allow for Del Toro and company to expand in detail upon many of the unique concepts introduced, but not elaborated on in the first film. The director has also shown interest in crossing over with Godzilla, but no concrete evidence of any plans to do so has surfaced yet. Fans of the original Pacific Rim will surely be excited for a second offering, and those who felt that the first entry was lacking in some aspects can hope for a more complete film. There is no doubt that when Pacific Rim 2 comes in 2017 it will be bigger in every way.
In a taped message to fans, del Toro said he has started work on the "Pacific Rim" sequel as he finishes post-production on "Crimson Peak," which Universal opens on Oct. 16, 2015.
"We are happy to be bringing you more Jaegers, more Kaijus, kicking each other’s butts," he added...
Here is the official trailer of Pacific Rim released in July, 2013:
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