When does Pacific Rim take place?
Pacific Rim is a gigantic sci-fi monster movie about robots fighting Kaiju, but when does the epic war movie take place?
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro – from a script he co-wrote with Travis Beacham – Pacific Rim plays out in a near-future where inter-dimensional creatures have emerged from a portal at the bottom of the ocean, and set about destroying the planet.
To do battle, mankind builds giant robots – called Kaiju – with heroes played by the likes of Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, and Charlie Day taking the fight to the monsters.
The film hit screens in 2013, and was a modest hit, grossing around double its rumored $200 million. But when is the movie set?
Pacific Rim is set in 2025, but the story doesn’t start there. Proceedings kick off in 2013 – the year the movie was shot – with those Kaiju emerging from ‘The Breach’ beneath the Pacific Ocean.
That’s also when humanity starts building ‘Jaegers’ – the giant robots controlled by pilots who are mentally melded by a process called ‘Drifting.’ The first battle that we witness plays out in 2020, when brothers Yancy and Raleigh Becket piloting a Jaegar called ‘Gypsy Danger’ to battle a monster known as Knifehead. A mission that’s ultimtately successful, but which ends in tragedy.
The movie then jumps forward five years, to 2025, which is where the majority of the film plays out, with a final effort to save the world before all is lost to the Kaiju.
Pacific Rim was followed by a sequel – Pacific Rim Uprising – which was released in 2018, and takes place in 2035, a decade after the so-called ‘Battle of the Breach.’ But the followup made considerably less money than its predecessor, so in film form at least, the Pacific Rim story ends there.
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