New PACIFIC RIM Kaiju Photos and Concept Art

I have no doubt that Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is going to be one of the most epically entertaining films of the summer. I don't know anyone that isn't excited as hell to see it, the movie just looks so damn cool! Here are a few new images to check out thanks to Empire Magazine. The first two are high resolution images. The others are scans from the magazine.

While talking to Empire, Del Toro had this to say about himself, his love for monsters, and the movie:

There was something weird about me from the beginning. I don't know exactly when I started loving monsters so much, but it was definitely early. When I was 4 or 5 years old, I would ask my mother, 'Can I sleep in the coffin tonight?' and I would lie down in a drawer or I would sleep in a toy box. There's even a recording of me, aged three or four, asking for a mandrake root, for Christmas, to use in magic rituals.

In creating Pacific Rim, I wanted the fights to have structure, like the wrestling matches of my childhood, so each fight brings a very different kind of aesthetic and a different dynamic. The first fight is very operatic, theatrical: Wagnerian. It happens in the middle of an iceberg-strewn sea, in the middle of a storm, with huge waves crashing on the Jaeger and Kaiju. We worked really hard at making water a character in this movie, frequently referring to Hokusai or the Fuji wave, and trying to make the water enhanced and add to the drama. This fight tries to quote the majesty of a painting by Goya called the Colossus.

July 12th can't get here soon enough!