New PACIFIC RIM Featurette With Stars Idris Elba And Charlie Hunnam

Actors Idris Elba and Charlie Hunnam, along with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, discuss the sci-fi action adventure and the characters of PACIFIC RIM in this brand new featurette.

Charlie Hunnam, who stars as Raleigh Becket, one of the brave Jaeger pilots, says, “The characters in the film are at the eleventh hour, and the only way they can overcome this colossal danger is by coming together and forgetting all their petty differences, be it nations or creeds or backgrounds. The one thing mankind has proven time and time again is that we can overcome any obstacle that we set our minds to, and I think that message will resonate with audiences.”

Get ready for giant monsters versus giant robots in a winner-take-all war that joins man and machine against aliens who ascend from the deep and be sure to check out a plethora of images from the upcoming film HERE.

Elba plays Stacker Pentecost who had been the commander of the Pan Pacific Defense Corp before the Jaeger Program was cut when the world leaders decided to shift their resources to other forms of defense. Now he leads those who are willing to stand with him in the Resistance.

The actor calls his character “a lifelong soldier and a natural born leader. No matter how big the problem is, his attitude is, ‘I’m going to find a way to fix this.’ Even after he loses his funding, he is still determined to fight and rally those who are left. Pentecost will not give up, even though he doesn’t have much to work with against an increasing number of Kaiju attacks. But as a strategist and a soldier, his only job is to figure out how to survive and to win.”

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 synched via a neural bridge, called “The Drift.” But as the enemy grows more powerful with each attack, 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 seemingly obsolete Jaeger.

Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

Oscar® nominee Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) directed the film from a script by Travis Beacham and del Toro, story by Beacham. Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, del Toro and Mary Parent produced the film, with Callum Greene serving as executive producer and Jillian Zaks co-producing.

PACIFIC RIM stars Charlie Hunnam (TV’s “Sons of Anarchy”), Idris Elba (“Thor”), Oscar® nominee Rinko Kikuchi (“Babel”), Charlie Day (“Horrible Bosses”), Rob Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, and Ron Perlman (the “Hellboy” films).

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, PACIFIC RIM will be in theaters July 12.

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This film has been rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief language.

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