Kaiju Big Battle?

First look at Idris Elba as Stacker Pentecost in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim:





Looks like Prometheus won't be the only ship Idris Elba helms in the coming year. Slated for a July 2013 release, Pacific Rim tells the story of an alternate future in which large creatures (alien?) rise from the depths of the oceans and threaten mankind. Humanity fights back of course, in the form of giant manned robots called Jaegers.

Also starring Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons Of Anarchy), Charlie Hunnam (Sons Of Anarchy, The Ledge) and Rinko Kikuchi (Norwegian Wood), del Toro calls Pacific Rim "a beautiful poem to giant monsters".

Here's a Toronto news clip on the transformation of Toronto into a "little Tokyo":






So what do you guys think? Yay? Nay? Getting tired of giant monster/robot movies or need more in your life NOW?


Sources:

Latino Review

IMDB

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