Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures PACIFIC RIM Trailer Comes Online

IDRIS ELBA, ROB KAZINSKY and director GUILLERMO DEL TORO on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ sci-fi action adventure “PACIFIC RIM,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo by Kerry Hayes

Ready for fighting aliens, monsters and robots on a colossal scale? Human pilots Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam rise to the challenge to save humanity in this first trailer for director Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi action adventure PACIFIC RIM.

What a cool trailer and I’m glad to see Elba headlining another big summer film after he starred in Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS. He won the Golden Globe award for best actor in a miniseries at the 2012 ceremony for his role as Detective Chief Inspector John Luther in BBC’s fantastic “Luther”. Next up for the actor is another turn – and much larger role – as the Asgardian sentry “Heimdall” in THOR: THE DARK WORLD (November 8, 2013).

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume Earth’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 (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) – 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.

With a screenplay by Travis Beacham (CLASH OF THE TITANS – 2010) and Guillermo del Toro from a story by Travis Beacham, the cast also includes Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Brad William Henke, Diego Klattenhoff and Ron Perlman. PACIFIC RIM will be in 3D and 2D in select theaters and IMAX on July 12.

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