Pacific Rim Screenwriter Talks Jeager Technology And Kaiju Biology

In an interview to IGN, Pacific Rim’s screenwriter Travis Beacham talked about the biology of the Kaiju and the technology behind the Jeager.

Kaiju:

“They each have different abilities. One of them that has a kind of electrical ability, they emit certain toxic fluids, they have surprise appendages that you don’t necessarily know about. Each Kaiju comes with its own set of grizzly abilities and surprises.”

“The blood is phosphorescent, and it’s also extraordinarily toxic. It has kind of a glowing black light effect when it’s freshly bleeding. It’s a condition that’s called in the movie, Kaiju blue, and at the

same time that it’s very sort of pretty looking, it’s also extremely dangerous. When we were first thinking about it, something that these kinds of stories usually just gloss over is you know, the monster comes in, you fight the monster, the monster’s dead – problem solved. Well really that’s kind of the beginning of the problem because now you have however many tons equivalent of rotting flesh in the middle of the city. I mean it’s an enormous public health hazard.”

“You will see something that is not Earth in the film, I’ll say that…  The Kaiju aren’t necessarily the responsible party. There’s a lot going on in the other universe, some of which you’ll get a glimpse of from the movie, but it is every bit as complex and crazy over there as it is on our side of the breach.”

Jaeger:

“The idea that let us realize that this was a human story was the idea that it takes to pilots to drive a Jaeger. That puts human relationships literally at the core of the robot in the battle. Suddenly it matters to the battle, and to the people that they are defending, that the two people are driving this robot get along, and that they trust one another, and that they have a firm relationship between them.”

Starring Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy, Ron Perlman from Hellboy, Idris Elba from Luther, Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Clifton Collins Jr. from Star Trek, Robert Maillet from Sherlock Holmes, Rinko Kikuchi from The Brothers Bloom, Heather Doerksen from Battlestar Galactica and Brad William Henke from Justified. The movie is due to arrive at theaters on the 12th of July of this summer.

Pacific Rim Official Synopsis:

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju started rising from the sea, a gigantic war breaks out to save Humanity and its resources from possible annihilation. To stop these monsters and win the war, a special type of weapon is developed, the Jaegers, massive robots that are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are connected in a neural bridge. The Jaeger can fight one on one with the Kaiju since they are of the same size and power, but not even they are proving to be powerful enough to stop the relentless Kaiju from taking over the world and wipe out Humanity. On the verge of certain defeat, the allied forces defending mankind have but little choice but to turn to two of the most unlikely heroes on the force, an untested trainee Mako Mori played by Rinko Kikuchi and Raleigh Becket a washed up former pilot, played by Charlie Hunnam. Both of them (Rinko and Raleigh) are teamed to drive the legendary but apparently completely obsolete Jaeger from the past. The two unlikely heroes became the last hope for mankind as they alone fight the Kaiju for the future of all Humanity.

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