Rumor Mill: ‘Pacific Rim’ Again Said To Be Tied To ‘Godzilla’
Pacific Rimis being battered by more rumors. Last year theTravis Beachamscript, in which nations of Earth band together to defeat massive attacking creatures, waspicked upby Legendary Pictures. Rumors soon emerged that it was being refitted as Legendary’s newGodzillafilm, and thatGuillermo del Torohad been offered the picture.
Yes, Guillermo del Toro was involved with developingPacific Rim, and ended upsigning to direct ita couple weeks ago whenAt the Mountains of Madnessfell apart, but well before that Travis Beacham took to Twitter to insist that there wasno connectionbetweenPacific RimandGodzilla. Both are movies with big monsters, both are at Legendary, but they are totally seperate things.
Now there is a new round of rumor that again links the two projects, and says that Legendary is asking for changes toPacific Rimin the wake of the disaster in Japan. Is this something you should believe? Right now, it seems open to question.
Bloody Disgustingran a piece last night saying that Legendary is asking for rewrites that remove Japan as a location fromPacific Rim, and also that Guillermo del Toro was asked to turn the script into a newGodzilla, which he refused to do. (Note thatMonstersdirector Gareth Edwards has been developingGodzillafor Legendary.)AICNquickly ran a rebuttal, saying that BD’s info is old and thatPacific Rimis going full speed ahead towards a September shoot. And it is not aGodzillapicture, nor is it being significantly rewritten in the wake of the disaster in Japan. In this case, AICN seems to be the source to believe; Harry certainly has a good line to Legendary, and to GDT. And afterThe HobbitandAt the Mountains of Madness, how likely is it that Guillermo del Toro would sign on to make a movie that he wasn’t going to be able to shoot as is?
And this afternoon, while we were having some tech issues, Travis Beacham again took toTwitter, calling the Japan-related rewrite rumor “unequivocally false,” and saying,
The situation in Japan is NOT tripping up PAC/RIM. Unless my day-to-day work load is an astonishingly elaborate prank. (link) Everyone close to PAC/RIM knows good & well it’s no insensitive disaster romp. That’s not me. It’s not GDT. And it’s not this movie. (link) This is, on its surface and in its heart, a movie about people. This is a movie about humanity. (link)
