Comic Con takes place in San Diego next week and the assets are starting to roll in as we have a first look at the title treatment and first official poster from Guillermo del Toro‘s Pacific Rim.
The future-set monster feature stars Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Rob Kazinsky, Clifton Collins Jr. and Ron Perlman in which legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, igniting a war that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end.
Pacific Rim is set to hit theaters on July 12, 2013 and will be featured at Comic Con this coming Saturday, July 14. My expectation is a trailer will be shown that will likely be in theaters a week later in front of The Dark Knight Rises.
Check out the first poster directly below and I’ve included the complete story synopsis below that.
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 (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.
