Idris Elba joins Pacific Rim

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Posted by Anthonyon 22. 06. 2011in News Chat

Idris Elba is just getting more and more popular and really is not showing signs of slowing down. He’d been rumored to be in discussions o join another big production film with a big director and today we learn that he’s locked in for the role formerly reserved for Tom Cruise in Guillermo Del Toro’s next film.

Source: Screen Rant

Idris Elba will finally graduate from strong supporting player to full-fledged leading man in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Legendary Pictures has been eying the respected (and busy) actor as a potential star of the sci-fi flick for a few weeks; now, a deal between the studio and Elba has been closed.

Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam will appear in Pacific Rim alongside Elba, who is set to tackle the role of Sensi. That part was originally conceived for Tom Cruise – back when he was circling the project in the wake of the collapse of del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness adaptation (which Cruise was set to star in).

Pacific Rim is a futuristic sci-fi thriller in which an enormous portal forms on Earth, allowing giant monsters from another world (referred to as The Anteverse, according to early script details) to reach our planet. Humanity fights back against the deadly creatures by initiating the “Jaeger” program – a military operation in which pilots train to control enormous mechanical suits and engage in direct combat with the extraterrestrial invaders.

Sounds good. Sounds great. Now they juts need to get to work and put this movie in my nearby theater. This will actually be Del Toro’s first film since Hellboy 2 so I’m really looking forward to him returning to his craft, and I can never over appreciate then news when a movie I’m looking forward to adds good and appreciable talent.