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I’m Ryan McCaffrey, and this is IGN News.
We are just a few months away from the release of Pacific Rim, and the studio has been posting
new images in the past few days from Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming giant monster movie,
and when we say giant, we mean it.
The images may not be from the movie itself as much as a marketing campaign, but that
doesn’t change the fact that the stills and the captions that accompany them are pretty
chilling. Especially this one.
With the caption, “We will rebuild the city around its bones,” you can see the scale
of these alien monsters from the deep. It definitely answers the question, “What DOES
one do with a 50 foot tall alien skull?”
For the image captioned “Kaiju Blue clean-up detail: an endless, thankless task,” this
image shows a lot of hazmat suited public servants cleaning a blue liquid off the beach
like an oil spill. And when this is paired with the next still captioned, “This is
as close as you ever want to get to kaiju blood” it seems pretty clear that these
creatures bleed toxic blue goo. Naturally, if you killed one off the coast of San Francisco
bay, it’d make quite a mess.
And the fourth image, with the caption “A chilling reminder of a Kaiju attack,” almost
holds the implication that a footprint of one of the aliens, called Kaiju, has been
turned into a historical attraction.
The obvious takeaway here is that these monsters are big. Really, really, big. It’s difficult
not to compare them to all the other massive movie monsters. When Godzilla almost crushed
Hank Azaria in the 1998 masterpiece, Godzilla, the foot of the beast was about the length
of couple of taxicabs.
In the trailer for Pacific Rim, we can see it takes an aircraft carrier just to transport
the skull and spine. And, spoiler alert, while Godzilla had problems with bridges in 1998...the
Kaiju don’t seem to be too bothered by them.
Pacific Rim is directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and stars Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam
and Ron Perlman, as well as Idris Elba, and Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Charlie Day.
The film opens July 12th in theaters and IMAX 3D. For all your movie monster news, you’re
already in the right place...IGN.