‘Pacific Rim’ Video Showcases the Oversized Robot Set

Guillermo del Toro describes his robots versus monsters movie Pacific Rim as a really great adventure, saying, “The action in the movie is what you would have dreamt to see when you were 11 years old.” And in this behind-the-scenes video, del Toro and his cast – including Sons of Anarchy‘s Charlie Hunnam and Idris Elba – discuss life on the set and working with the practical effects of the film.

This ‘Making of’ featurette shows how the actors who tackle roles controlling the huge robots in the film pulled off the stunts which involved what del Toro describes as a “torture machine.”

Pacific Rim Robots Poster

The Plot:

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.