As the film slowly approaches, fans over at
Del Toro films pop in questions every now and then. The director was kind enough to add a few details, check them out below.
Beware of trying to impose models of things that already have been done to the point of being a genre or subgenre in themselves.
In other words, if you want a straight Mecha or straight Kaiju movie, there is an already existing catalogue of great ones.
Kaiju and Mecha are influences on this but so were fairy tales in Pan's Labyrinth or Ghost stories on Devil's Backbone or comic books on Hellboy.
We have created a new property and we are making it work in its very own terms. I believe the more you allow us to surprise you the happier you'll be.
Pacific Rim stomps and blasts its way into theaters next summer.