Director Guillermo del Toro deliberately avoided watching classic Japanese monster films when he was making "Pacific Rim," his upcoming robots-versus-kaiju film.
Slated for a July 12, 2013, release, the film chronicles an epic battle between alien kaiju and giant robots piloted by humans.
"I felt there was a chance to do something fresh, something new that at the same time was conscious of the heritage, but not a pastiche or an homage or a greatest hits of everything," Del Toro said.
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