Monstrous Teasing: Pacific Rim Teaser Video Released

About a year and a half ago, it looked like things were good to go for Guillermo del Toro to get the green light to film a live action adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, with a 150 million dollar budget and a commitment to turn the story of the Antarctic discovery of Elder Things, Shoggoths and Cthulhu into a film with a hard R rating, in accordance with the horror of the original story. That was good. However, at the eleventh hour, Universal pulled the plug on the movie, because it had a 150 million dollar budget and a hard R rating. That was less good.

However, del Toro took the adversity on the chin, wiped it off like a pro, and took the disappointment of suddenly finding himself unable to adapt a classic of the cosmic horror genre to sink his teeth into something equally weighty: a flick about giant monsters and robots.

Pacific Rim is scheduled to open on July 12, 2013, and the first teaser video of the flick has been released, which you can check out after the jump.