Variety reports Kazinsky has joined the cast of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim as a member of the team fighting alien invaders. Moreover, Willem Dafoe is in early talks to play a “rogue scientist with expertise on alien creatures.” Sounds like perfect casting. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, and Max Martini also star.
Willem Dafoe as a rogue scientist? Oh I like the sound of that. He might be one of the few actors that can ham up a role and keep it tasteful, like his performances in
Spider-man and
The Boondock Saints. He always channels a performance that is pleasantly unexpected.
While Rob is someone I'm not too familiar with, oh to hell with it, I have no clue who he is. As for my research, it shows Mr. Kazinsky is a British Soap star on the show,
Eastenders. I would assume that he must have some chops if great directors like Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro are interested in him.
Plot Synopsis:An alternate version of Earth in the near future, decades after a historic date in November 2012 when the first kaiju, a towering Godzilla-like beast, emerged from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked the city of Osaka, Japan. The second is “The Anteverse,” another universe on the other side of that gaping portal, 5 miles below our ocean’s surface.
Since the first attack, the rim has been “spitting out” a variety of gigantic monsters at an increasing rate, which then stride out of the ocean and begin destroying sea-bordering cities, like Tokyo and Los Angeles. In order to combat these monstrous, otherworldly menaces, the military developed the “Jaeger” program, which trains teams of two pilots to jointly operate massive, building-sized mechanized suits of armor and high-tech weaponry.
Pacific Rim is scheduled for release on July 12, 2013.
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