When I first saw It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, I knew the funniest guy on there would make his way into one of the biggest upcoming action blockbusters. I’ll admit that may be an exaggeration, but the thought has come true, as Variety reports Charlie Day is in talks to come aboard the Pacific Rim cast.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro, we already have Sons of Anarchy lead Charlie Hunnan signed as our star with Idris Elba circling. Day is lined up to play a professor, while Hunnan is a pilot in the alien invasion story. Check out more details on the script from Travis Beacham below, involving two separate worlds.
The first is an alternate version of Earth in the near future, decades after a historic date in November 2012 when the first kaiju, a towering Godzilla-like beast, emerged from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked the city of Osaka, Japan. The second is “The Anteverse,” another universe on the other side of that gaping portal, 5 miles below our ocean’s surface. Since the first attack, the rim has been “spitting out” a variety of gigantic monsters at an increasing rate, which then stride out of the ocean and begin destroying sea-bordering cities, like Tokyo and Los Angeles. In order to combat these monstrous, otherworldly menaces, the military developed the “Jaeger” program, which trains teams of two pilots to jointly operate massive, building-sized mechanized suits of armor and high-tech weaponry.
I’m not sure how big Day’s role will be, but the actor has slowly been creeping into feature film roles. He appeared in last year’s Going the Distance and has Horrible Bosses next month. I’m hearing fantastic buzz about the latter comedy, in which he hatches a plan to kill his sex-crazed boss Jennifer Aniston.
Pacific Rim production is planned to begin this fall.
What do you think about Day joining a Guillermo del Toro film?