Tentative release date is July 12, 2013 New Giant Monster vs Mech movie from Guillermo del Toro, the director of Hellboy 1 and 2 and the outstanding Pan's Labyrinth. He was also attached as director of The Hobbit at one point. Synopsis: The film is set in the future where soldiers piloting giant robots battle against giant monsters who have mysteriously risen five miles beneath the ocean. The film will be an homage to the giant monster movies from Japan, known as the kaiju genre. Del Toro has said the film will be "a beautiful poem to giant monsters". Cast includes Ron Perlman, Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, and Rinko Kikuchi. More info: Spoiler Beacham's script is apparently set in a world where, in November 2012, a giant creature, or kaiju, emerges from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked Osaka in Japan. After this, more and more creatures have emerged over the years, causing even more devastation, and decades on, humanity has developed something called the "Jaeger" program. This teams two pilots, with a neural link, who together operate enormous robotic weaponry capable of battling the monsters. One such driver is the hero -- 23-year-old Raleigh Antrobus, who's grieving the loss of his brother and co-pilot on a mission a year earlier. Raleigh is sent to Tokyo and teamed with another "leftover," a Japanese pilot called Mako Mori. Meanwhile, there's a parallel storyline going on with Felicity "Flick" Kincaid, the former fiance of Raleigh's dead brother, traveling the world to try and discover the cause of the rift. The site also suggest that at some stage, the heroes will cross over to the "Anteverse," the other side of the portal, which they promise will give Del Toro a good opportunity for the world-creation that's become his trademark. link The plot reads a lot like the Monsterpocalypse universe, a tabletop strategy game that you play with giant monsters and their minions on a 3d city map. The film rights to Monsterpocalypse were sold to Dreamworks a couple of years ago. I hope this doesn't hurt the chances of that film being made.
Guillermo del Toro basically did this after leaving the Hobbit (MGM Bankruptcy) and having Universal nix his H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" adaptation in favor of Battleship. Dudes had the worst luck ever. He's basically a for hire on this one, so I'm expecting more Mimic/Blade instead of Pans Labyrinth/Hellboy.
An homage to a genre of Japanese movies............Quentin is gonna be pissed that someone stole his schtick.
