Manila featured in Pacific Rim

MANILA, Philippines - Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have just shared a teaser photo from an anticipated new trailer of Guillermo del Toro’s epic, action adventure Pacific Rim and it features Manila.

The photo shows a screen-grab from a news flash, reporting that a kai kaiju (sea monster) wreaks havoc on Manila and leaves a pile contaminating the city.

It’s interesting how extensive will the city’s exposure be in the new trailer which may debut any day now, and in the movie itself which opens in the Philippines July 11.

In Pacific Rim, when legions of monstrous creatures, known as kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: Massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge.

But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes — a washed-up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi) — who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

The Oscar nominee Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) is directing the epic film from a script by Travis Beacham (Clash of the Titans). Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Mary Parent are producing, with Callum Greene serving as executive producer.

Apart from Hunnam (TV’s Sons of Anarchy) and Kikuchi (The Brothers Bloom), the film stars Idris Elba (Thor), Charlie Day (Horrible Bosses) and Ron Perlman (the Hellboy films). The ensemble cast also includes Max Martini, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Diego Klattenhoff and Brad William Henke.