Guillermo del Toro's latest project Pacific Rim is still being kept pretty secret, but the man is willing to give us a few bits of information.
The plot of Pacific Rim takes place in 2012 Japan when a monster emerges from the Pacific Ocean and destroys parts of Japan. The humans build giant robots to fight the aliens with and discover the alternate monster world hidden in the hole in the ocean. With the tragedies last year in Japan, some people wondered if del Toro would change the setting at all. That and they wonder what the robots will look like.
Del Toro commented in the forums of deltorofilms that the Mechs in the new movie would be his own creation. "These are proper robots but they obey our own sensibilities in design. I am not making them gear or steampunky at all but I also don't want them to be just a "riff" on preexisting designs from Anime or games."
Moving on to the setting and the earthquake issue he said "As far as Japan, Mako Mori, one of our main characters is Japanese and her flashbacks are tied to a MAJOR set piece set in Tokyo. We are involving - and always have involved- the entire PACIFIC RIM. Japan, China, Australia, Coastal Russia etc, etc No major rewrites took place after the Earthquake. I changed the nature and location of Mako's flashback but it was still in Japan."
