One of the biggest gambles of the summer is easily Guillermo del Toro‘s robot vs. monsters smash-em-up Pacific Rim. With Warner Bros. providing the hefty budget, it’s difficult to tell if audiences will connect with the action-filled mayhem on screen or brush it off entirely. Placed right in the middle of summer, we expect a massive marketing campaign and things are ramping up now with the debut of a new full-length trailer.
Coming off of our WonderCon footage reel, this looks includes a few of the same setpieces, but also packs some new elements. We witness some sort of memory transference between the pilots of our robots, as well as a few new bits of large-scale action. It looks like some major fun, an element we’re hoping will sustain throughout the film. Featuring Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba and Ron Perlman, check it out below.
Synopsis:
From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ sci-fi action adventure “Pacific Rim.” 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.
Pacific Rim lands on July 12th, 2013.