PACIFIC RIM to be delayed in light of Japan tragedies?

At this point, even Terry Gilliam is looking at Del Toro and saying, "Man, what shitty luck he's having."

I doubt it will really affect it.  First off, most news items about the film state that it won't even hit theaters until Summer 2013.  Second, Legendary Pictures' Godzilla reboot is still slated to hit screens sometime next year (though 2013 is more likely as well)....................and word is that Toho is bringing the Big G back within the next year or two as well.  We're going to have kaiju out the wazoo in the near future and I will be surprised if this really slows any of it down.  Worst case scenario?  They change the locale of some of the devastation in Pacific Rim.

If for some reason it does fall apart (be it over this or something else), it's not like GDT doesn't have countless other projects waiting in the wings....

- Frankenstein

- The Haunted Mansion

- Slaughterhouse-Five

- Drood

- The Champions

- Saturn and the End of Days

- Montecristo

- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

- Crimson Peak

- Mephisto's Bridge

- 3993

- The Witches

- Deadman

- The Coffin

- Hellboy 3

- ...............................etc.

Any of those and countless more are either already in the planning stages or could easily be dusted off if he so desired.

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Originally Posted by S.D. Bob Plissken 

 

If for some reason it does fall apart (be it over this or something else), it's not like GDT doesn't have countless other projects waiting in the wings....

 

- Frankenstein

- The Haunted Mansion

- Slaughterhouse-Five

- Drood

- The Champions

- Saturn and the End of Days

- Montecristo

- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

- Crimson Peak

- Mephisto's Bridge

- 3993

- The Witches

- Deadman

- The Coffin

- Hellboy 3

- ...............................etc.

 

Any of those and countless more are either already in the planning stages or could easily be dusted off if he so desired.

Screw all those! Get GDT on The List of 7, stat!

But I agree. I doubt this will (or even should) delay the production of PACIFIC RIM. It's not coming out for at least another 18 months, maybe two years. That's a respectful distance, IMNSHO.
 

Seconded, although I imagine that the Downey Holmes franchise kind of scuttled that idea. 

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Originally Posted by S.D. Bob Plissken 

I doubt it will really affect it.  First off, most news items about the film state that it won't even hit theaters until Summer 2013.  Second, Legendary Pictures' Godzilla reboot is still slated to hit screens sometime next year (though 2013 is more likely as well)....................and word is that Toho is bringing the Big G back within the next year or two as well.  We're going to have kaiju out the wazoo in the near future and I will be surprised if this really slows any of it down.  Worst case scenario?  They change the locale of some of the devastation in Pacific Rim.

 

If for some reason it does fall apart (be it over this or something else), it's not like GDT doesn't have countless other projects waiting in the wings....

 

- Frankenstein

- The Haunted Mansion

- Slaughterhouse-Five

- Drood

- The Champions

- Saturn and the End of Days

- Montecristo

- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

- Crimson Peak

- Mephisto's Bridge

- 3993

- The Witches

- Deadman

- The Coffin

- Hellboy 3

- ...............................etc.

 

Any of those and countless more are either already in the planning stages or could easily be dusted off if he so desired.

...Jesus, that many? He should make SOMETHING soon, at least.

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Originally Posted by S.D. Bob Plissken 

Second, Legendary Pictures' Godzilla reboot is still slated to hit screens sometime next year (though 2013 is more likely as well)....................and word is that Toho is bringing the Big G back within the next year or two as well.  We're going to have kaiju out the wazoo in the near future and I will be surprised if this really slows any of it down.

I know this is gonna sound insensitive (hope be with the families and the lost), but when I saw the Japanese footage, my immediate thought was "HOLY CRAP that looks like G-MAN's on HIS WAY".

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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 

 

I know this is gonna sound insensitive (hope be with the families and the lost), but when I saw the Japanese footage, my immediate thought was "HOLY CRAP that looks like G-MAN's on HIS WAY".

I'll be right beside you in hell, because one of my secondary thoughts on viewing it was "They could use this for footage of Gojira's destruction."

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Originally Posted by Ratty 

At this point, even Terry Gilliam is looking at Del Toro and saying, "Man, what shitty luck he's having."

           And in the course of a week too. I think he should finally give "Drood" a shot instead.

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Originally Posted by Chris Spider 

...Jesus, that many? He should make SOMETHING soon, at least.

 

You'd think so, especially since virtually ALL of those projects have been in the works since BEFORE he signed on to do The Hobbit.  The real question is how pissed is he at Universal right now?  I only ask because at least half of those are set up over there as part of the production deal that he has with them through the next three or four years.  Frankenstein is close enough in pre-production that make-up tests have supposedly already been shot with Doug Jones.  There is absolutely NO reason why GDT can't have a film (or two) in theaters next year if he really wants to actually shoot something.

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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 

 

 

I know this is gonna sound insensitive (hope be with the families and the lost), but when I saw the Japanese footage, my immediate thought was "HOLY CRAP that looks like G-MAN's on HIS WAY".

What is happening in Japan right now is devastatingly depressing.  That said, after decades of watching Godzilla films, I would be lying if I didn't have a thought in the back of my head about the Big G rising from the depths of the ocean to go siphon the energy off of that damaged nuclear plant and then go kick the ass of whatever evil beastie that caused the earthquake.  The whole scenario sounds like a crazy plot from a Godzilla flick anyway.  Volcanic explosions?  Earthquakes?  Tsunamis?  Nuclear disaster?  Add in a kaiju and you have yourself a Toho film.

I don't think having such thoughts is insensitive.  It just shows your love for one of Japan's most endearing pop culture creations that is destined to live on forever.  No one here is laughing about what is happening over there, but thinking about monsters in a situation like this is only natural for members of a site named CHUD.

Besides, if you think that Toho won't use this as inspiration (and a way of dealing with this awful tragedy) on down the line when they bring Godzilla back themselves, you're crazy.
 

I totally thought of a Godzilla movie when I first saw the footage of that oil refinery burning because there are scenes that look EXACTLY like that in a couple Godzilla movies (you know, with giant raging fires and explosions amongst those big spherical containers of oil). But it definitely wasn't like "lol here comes Godzilla" it was that what I was watching was so surreal and horrifying that it seemed like something out of a monster movie.