Earlier this week, two slightly viral images showed off a Kaiju footprint and some oozing black blood of the beasts. Now we've got two new pictures in the same vein, the first of which feels like a screengrab from a news program covering a story about Manila being contaminated by the huge feces. The second is helicopter-style shot of a skeleton between skyscrapers under construction.
The idea both these new images is the same: convey the sheer size of the Kaiju, the monsters who ascend from an interdimensional rift deep in the Pacific Ocean and promptly start killing humans en masse. Pacific Rim picks up fifteen years after first contact with the Kaiju, with the nations of Earth having thrown all their resources into building Jaegers, equally huge robots designed to combat Kaiju like its going out of style.
Jaegars require two pilots to command the machines via an exceedingly dangerous neural link. The film, which hits theaters in 2D and post-converted 3D on July 12th, follows Charlie Hunnam as a washed-up pilot who must team up with Rinko Kikuchi as a rookie to stop the end of the world as we know it at the wheel of an antiquated Jaeger.
Both of the images above are here thanks to the official Warner Bros. Twitter.
The studio has been wisely holding back on Pacific Rim, showing just glimpses of the Kaiju in action. But with WonderCon coming up next week and the July release date getting ever closer, the next few months should see an explosion of material related to the new movie from Guillermo del Toro.
It's been way too long between movies from the man behind The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos, Hellboy, and even Blade II. After finishing up Hellboy II: The Golden Army in 2008, del Toro lost a lot of time developing The Hobbit and then At the Mountains of Madness without getting either movie made. So it feels like a minor miracle that this beautiful man – a man who has vowed never to make a movie that doesn't have a monster in it – has a new movie arriving soon. That it's a movie involving giant robots pummeling equally huge monsters in the face is icing on the cake.
