PACIFIC RIM (In Production)

• PACIFIC RIM

Principal photography on Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rimbegins this week in Toronto. Wired caught up to del Toro himself before camerasstarted rolling, and gleaned a few details about what to expect from the 2013release.

Gullermo del Toro

"We start shooting next Monday on 'Pacific Rim',"says del Toro, "which is a gigantic production for Legendary Pictures andWarner Bros. We are wrapping production on a smaller, very powerful horror filmcalled Mama, which I am producing. Chuck and I are working on a series of booksthat I can’t talk too much about. But we started on that about two weeks ago.I’m still working on animation at DreamWorks. I’m keeping myself prettybusy."

The director also spoke about the film's cast, confirmingthat del Toro regular Ron Perlman has signed on.

"We are working with actors that I absolutelyadore," he continues. "Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, RonPerlman. It's really, it's a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giantmonsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crapout of 25-story-high monsters. We're trying to create a world in which thecharacters are real and how it would affect our world politically, how it wouldaffect the landscape if creatures like this really came out of the sea,etc."