Pacific Rim Writer and Director Talk With Us About the Film’s Humanity

Now that Pacific Rim is in theaters and taking the box office by storm, it seemed a good time to look back on some of the things that director Guillermo del Toro and screenwriter Travis Beacham told ComicBook.com during an interview during New York Comic Con, when the pair were assembled by Legendary Comics to promote Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero, which had at the time just been announced.Back then, of course, fans knew very little about Pacific Rim, but the world-building that del Toro and Beacham had put into it was pretty clear even just from hearing them talk about the film.What was just as clear was the fact that they hoped to deal mostly with the human element, avoiding the trap of becoming another Transformers-style movie.