Del Toro talks about his lifelong passion for monsters :
“There was something weird about me from the beginning. I don’t know exactly when I started loving monsters so much, but it was definitely early. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I would ask my mother, ‘Can I sleep in the coffin tonight?’ and I would lie down in a drawer or I would sleep in a toy box. There’s even a recording of me, aged three or four, asking for a mandrake root, for Christmas, to use in magic rituals.” Read More at Empire.
Stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Brad William Henke, and Diego Klattenhoff.
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.
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