Guillermo del Toro on Comic-Con 2012
6,500 people who came into the room H Fairgrounds in San Diego to the presentation of the painting "Pacific Rim", were not disappointed: Guillermo del Toro, opened the curtain on his new film, and featured material led the audience in raptures.
Legendary studio head Thomas Tull said, how screenwriter Travis Beacham came to him with the idea of a film about giant robots fighting with giant monsters.
"The idea is excellent, I said, but you need to bring it to mind. And then we stole one man", - said Tull.
At this point the stage to the applause went Guillermo del Toro. The director has been taken as a rock star, so long had been standing ovation.
"Now I wrought upon my word, - said Guillermo. - I bought a pair of pants sizes too big, so it's all right!"
"This film for me as a great gift for Christmas. It has appeared in my life as a time when it was especially necessary", - said the director, alluding to cut down on the draft Universal adaptation of Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness".
In an interview, Del Toro says, "Termination of work on a "mountains" has put me into the deepest despair. We are already flying over Alaska, searching for places to shoot, when I called and asked to come to the studio to talk about.Â
Universal is not going to spend 150 million on a movie rated R. I do not regret that I did not give. See, there's "Prometheus" with the same rating, with the same budget and without major stars. And I had Tom Cruise in the lead role and Jim Cameron as producer. I do not want to say that they were right and I'm right. I have never been able to work in their field, because it gave a green light for projects such as "At the Mountains of Madness" and many others. I understand. But, still sad. Hundreds of drawings, sketches, storyboards, animatics - all going nowhere. In the ILM special effects made tents tests and proved that anything is possible! For the director this turn of events is always very offensive, because you already have in mind a movie that you want to show the audience. "
Shooting of "Pacific Rim" have ended in a couple of weeks ago, but for the Comic-Con has been specially mounted video. Appeared on the stage stars of the film Charlie Hannem, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day and Ron Perlman, Guillermo and then explained that for every giant robot control requires two persons, one on each side. "All the shit with the James-James Bond camera in the glasses, cut down his technique! This footage no one else sees!" Guillermo has promised that before the end of the year of the project comes from radio silence, and no other material on it is avaliable. The light is turned off, has begun commercial.
In the "Pacific Rim" there will be nine kaizen and six robots. "We have sketched some 40 variants of monsters and made them a contest "American Idol". We chose the best".
Del Toro began to tell, what do monsters in his film, in that the head of Legendary added: "Believe me, our bank account may well tell you how much he made them get up there!"
Director of "Hellboy" was never shy in expressions. He rode on the popular motion capture technology:"I have no fucking "mo-caps" in the movie! The robots have to move like robots! The same applies to the monster. " Despite the abundance of graphics in the film, much has been done the old fashioned way, with the help of mechanics and props.
The result of the Guillermo del Toro can only be evaluated in July 11, 2013.