Director: Guillermo del Toro

Release date: 12 July 2013 (USA)

Cast: Ron Perlman Charlie Day Charlie Hunnam Idris Elba Max Martini Clifton Collins Jr. Robert Maillet Rinko Kikuchi Diego Klattenhoff Burn Gorman Heather Doerksen Robert Kazinsky Genre: Action | Sci-Fi

Writing credits:
Travis Beacham (screenplay)

Filming Location:
Toronto, Canada

Plot Summary:
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.

The central character is Raleigh Antrobus, 23, a skilled Jaeger pilot still wrestling emotionally with the loss of his co-pilot and biological brother, Yance, during a mission a year earlier. The ordeal has wreaked havoc on his mind spirit, leaving him with ghostly nightmares of the battle from the shared "pons" experience. After the initial setup, the damaged hero is recruited to re-join the task force in Tokyo, where pilots are in demand, and team with a fellow "leftover," 22-year-old female Japanese pilot Mako Mori. Naturally, the language barrier (among other things) presents an issue for the out-of-sync duo, meaning an even steeper learning curve for the unprecedented pairing.

Meanwhile, Felicity "Flick" Kincaid, a journalist and Yance's former fiance, circles the globe to discover answers about this mysterious rift and the origins of its intensifying threat.

Producers: Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Guillermo del Toro, Mary Parent