Director Guillermo del Toro unveiled a new trailer for his upcoming giant robot epic Pacific Rim, which originally screened at this year’s Wondercon. In the trailer we see just a glimpse of how incredible these giant fights are going to be, and you know it’s going to be bad-ass when you see a giant robot swing a ship like it’s a baseball bat.
Movies like this instantly make me regress back to my twelve-year-old self, and for that I absolutely cannot wait till this hits theaters July 12th. Hit the jump for the trailer and synopsis.
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.
