Pacific Rim

[X Knight]

can't wait till they show some of the monster designs!!

 

[matrix_ghost]

And an American Jaeger looks like George Washington.

SO technically Idris Elba's Jaeger should look at Shaft

 

[DarkSovereignty]

that wouldn't be all together unpleasant.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

And an American Jaeger looks like George Washington.

The first thing I thought of when you said this is at 2:54 of this vid:

[YT]o63upjZi0Ak[/YT]

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

SO technically Idris Elba's Jaeger should look at Shaft

Well, technically it would actually look like something British.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

like a giant tea pot or something.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

A teapot with a top hat and a monocle.

 

[obin_gam]

A teapot with a top hat and a monocle.

and it shall be called The Gov'na 5000

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

 

[Kirindal]

There was this awesome animated short of WWII robots a few years back that did this kind of thing but I can't find it.

You mean Code Guardian?

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVwIH3H9TE[/YT]

 

[redhawk23]

^ Whoa, that's a way longer version than what I saw years ago. Thanks for the link.

 

[redhawk23]

Interview about the logistics of building and operating a Jaeger with robotics expert and author of Robopocalypse Daniel Wilson.

http://io9.com/5925549/could-we-actually-build-a-robot-the-size-of-pacific-rims-massive-jaegers

 

[Doctor Jones]

Well, technically it would actually look like something British.

Or just a giant robotic Idris Elba.

But if that happened, the movie would be over in five minutes.

 

[Hunter Rider]

When is the panel for this?

 

[rashad]

When is the panel for this?

Panel Info

Legendary Pictures will do its panel for Pacific Rim and Man of Steel along with Warner Bros.’ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey this Saturday at 2:30pm in Hall H.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Thanks rashad.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Or just a giant robotic Idris Elba.

But if that happened, the movie would be over in five minutes.

Try five seconds.

 

[superkong 500]

Is there any chance of getting at least a new pic of the robots or monsters today? maybe during or after the panel they'll hand out new posters or promo art of the jaegers and/or monsters in full? Yea I know we already got a concept poster of the jaeger but I'm talking about a full reveal(full body pic). Maybe I'm asking for too much this early but I just cant' wait.

 

[Gamma_Powered_God]

They said the only monster footage was a monster attacking a bridge, but not a full body shot.

 

[Dr Lee]

D'oh!!!! wrong thread...

 

[Gabe99]

From IGN:
Comic-Con: Pacific Rim Brings Giant Monsters and Robots
Director Guillermo del Toro's biggest genre movie yet!

Director Guillermo del Toro presented his ambitious giant monsters vs. giant robots epic Pacific Rim to fans at Saturday's San Diego Comic-Con. Cast members Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi and the one and only Ron Perlman were in attendance, along with Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull.

What is Pacific Rim about? Here's the official synopsis to shed some light: "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 and an untested trainee 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."

OH BOY. What a show Guillermo and Legendary put on for fans at SDCC! First, not one but three huge screens were utilized in Hall H for the Pacific Rim footage presentation. It was essentially an extended trailer, complete with music and finished VFX. The footage was, as GDT put it, "robo-porn" and it was freaking amazing. It makes Michael Bay's Transformers movies look like they were shot for a buck and a quarter. Imagine a mixture of Transformers, Gatchaman and Godzilla and you have some idea of what Pacific Rim has in store.

The trailer showed the piloted robot duking it out at sea with a Kaiju intercut with the pilots as they are given a rousing speech from Idris Elba's commander who declares, "Today we are canceling the apocalypse!" Del Toro announced that after SDCC, though, Pacific Rim is going into a media blackout until year's end. So only those lucky 6000+ people in Hall H today will know just how elfin' awesome Pacific Rim looks for the next six months until the trailer is released.

Del Toro explained that he did not want his robots brought to life via motion-capture because he didn't want them to move like humans so they went old school CG animation. He also told his animators not to just have the monsters standing there moving their claws during a fight like henchmen in a bad martial arts movie just standing there posing until the hero whips their ass. All the Kaiju were created from the team's own imagination and were not patterned after preexisting creatures from legends or depicted in other films or media.

Pacific Rim opens July 12, 2013.

 

[craigdbfan]

Dang I guess no trailer with TDKR then.

 

[Fives]

Here's the report from Bleedingcool:http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/07...veals-his-plans-for-robot-and-monster-mayhem/
They go into a little more detail from the panel.

Written on July 14, 2012 by Brendon Connelly in Film, Recent Updates
The bad news is this: after today’s Pacific Rim panel at Comic-Con, promotions on the film are going dark. According to Guillermo Del Toro, there will be radio silence on the film from here until the end of the year.
The 6,500 of us in Hall H have just been unusually lucky, then. And the atmosphere her tells me that we know it.

The Legendary and Warner Bros. panel kicked off with curtains peeling back and a multiple projector show starting up, playing footage from Pacific Rim, and behind the scenes images from the making of the film. The unifying factor between the images would be how beautiful well lit and photographed they were.

When we got to see the unique, one time only trailer, it opened with what appeared to be a parent and child walking along on snowy beach using a metal detector. It picks up something… something big and metal. A huge, stumbling mech – a Jaeger robot.

In subsequent scenes we saw the operators taking control of the Jaegers, two at a time. There were lots of shots of huge kaiju, the giant monsters that threaten life on earth in the world of Pacific Rim.
Idris ELba’s character was heard giving a pep talk to Jaeger pilots. Armageddon is going to get its ass kicked.
Elba operated with his typical magnetism and gravitas. The Hall H crowd were in full on fist pumping mode by now.

In the Q&A, Del Toro talked a little about the formal choices, and some camera choices he made. “We have oil and water [on the lens] and shake and we add scratches to the lens… at times the camera can’t clear the whole height of the robot or the kaiju. Well, I’m not keen on that kind of stuff, but the camera work we saw in the trailer was quite simply astounding.

There’s “no ****ing motion capture, it was all key framed” because Del Toro wanted the robots to movie like robots, and the monsters moving like monsters.

Asked if the film would feature a variety of Kaiju with unique abilities Del Toro said “Take a ****ing guess.” He later explained that we’d see “Three sea monsters… we have flying monsters… we have monsters up the wazoo… every kind we created was created specifically for the movie.”

They apparently designed some 40 kaiju and “did an American Idol on them, had a pageant… but the better kaiju are the ones that are in the film. And when you think you’ve seen a kaiju do its thing it does something else… there are some set pieces there that I think have never been seen on film.”

As for the Jaegers, Guillermo promises “rocket punches… amazing melee weapons, close contact weapons and some artillery. Expect obscene robot porn, robot on kaiju action.”

And, both in terms of monsters and Jaegers, it’s all been designed to within an inch of its life and looks stunning.

 

[Sawyer]

Or just a giant robotic Idris Elba.

But if that happened, the movie would be over in five minutes.

And every woman in the audience would suddenly find themselves pregnant.

 

[PWN3R]

All the descriptions of the panel sound marvelous. Super jealous about the media blackout. I mean, at least throw us a teaser for these blue balls.