Pacific Rim Franchise Discussion

[Dukefrukem]

Shooting begins on October 31, six month shoot through April 2012

July 21, 2013 release

When an alien attack threatens the Earth's existence, giant robots piloted by humans are deployed to fight off the menace

[Qrazy]

Meh, mecha animes mostly suck and I don't see why this would be any different.

[Dukefrukem]

"Huge" is the word he used to describe the monsters featured in the film, which concerns a giant monster invasion and the mech suits mankind creates to battle the beasts. "This is my most un-modest film, this has everything. The scale is enormous and I'm just a big kid having fun."

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news...s.php?id=19724

[number8]

I like Del Toro, but honestly, this is going to have boatloads of CGI, and I'm not sure I'm digging on the idea of a serious tokusatsu project done in that way.

I'm more interested in that halted movie with the similar premise that Matt Stone and Trey Parker wanted to do with rubber suits.

[Kiusagi]

It's giant fucking robots versus giant fucking monsters.

Alright, I'm in.

Seriously though, I'm pretty damn excited for this. From what I've heard coming from Comic-Con, it looks like Del Toro is being given a lot of creative freedom. For instance, he's been allowed to pick the right actors for the roles rather than big stars.

For some reason, mecha animes usually fail to keep my interest, but I've always liked the idea of mechs. I'm crossing my fingers for this one.

[Dukefrukem]

Willem Dafoe joins cast

[Dukefrukem]

[Henry Gale]

Ah yes, Toronto's world-famous Tokyo Town.

[Stay Puft]

I had no idea they were shooting in Toronto. I'm tempted to take a walk down there just to see what they've done. Reminds me when I unknowingly stumbled onto the set of The Incredible Hulk a few years ago.

[Dukefrukem]

[Sycophant]

So a lot of my favorite things involve giant robots (Gundam) and a lot of my other favorite things involve giant robots fighting giant monsters (Evangelion, Gunbuster).

I read somewhere that the robots require two human pilots to be neurally connected as operators, and that the two lead characters are such a pair, one a seasoned, chiseled male veteran, and the other a young female rookie.

Hey everyone. Guillermo del Toro is making a movie for me.

[Dukefrukem]

[Morris Schæffer]

This movie should kick so much ass.

[KK2.0]

I used to watch plenty of japanese rubber suit giant monsters as a kid, Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, Spectreman... oh please be a good movie!

[EvilShoe]

[Morris Schæffer]

So hang on a minute. The sizes in that poster are not exagerated?!

[Morris Schæffer]

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Comicon Panel! WITH FOOTAGE!!!

No without footage. They cut it out. I thought this was official. :cry:

I guess I'm not wel versed in Comicon rules.

[MadMan]

This sounds like a wicked cool idea that probably won't live up to the hype. I hope to be proven wrong. Mechas! Aliens!

[Sycophant]

There is no hype.

[megladon8]

This is a movie where that holy grail of CGI - that ever-elusive sense of real weight and heft - could make or break the whole thing.

If robots that big still move like a 6 foot tall person, the entire thing won't work.

[Watashi]

This is a movie where that holy grail of CGI - that ever-elusive sense of real weight and heft - could make or break the whole thing.

If robots that big still move like a 6 foot tall person, the entire thing won't work.

Did you watch the panel? They talk about this very thing.

[megladon8]

Did you watch the panel? They talk about this very thing.

No, the video doesn't work for me. Region issue.

[number8]

In short: Del Toro rejected the use of mo-cap technology on the film because he didn't want any of the robots or kaijyus to move anything like a human being. He said no "motion fucking capture shit" because he thinks the benefit of CGI over dudes in suits is that, like the way Harryhausen used stop-motion, you can make them move to your imagination, which would be using CGI's full potential, instead of just using it as a shortcut to create elaborate costumes.

[Dukefrukem]

[KK2.0]

This is a movie where that holy grail of CGI - that ever-elusive sense of real weight and heft - could make or break the whole thing.

If robots that big still move like a 6 foot tall person, the entire thing won't work.

this article has a collections of impressions from the footage they showed http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...#slide=1225485


one in particular adressed exactly that:

"A big reason "Pacific Rim" footage works is Del Toro understands physics - scale, momentum, inertia, surrounding environment, etc."