On a boiling hot Thursday in February, we took a bus out to Homebush, a sprawling suburb located about a 40 minutes drive out of the Sydney CBD on a good day. Pacific Rim: Uprising’s set here looked bare from a distance, bar the four 20-meter high bluescreens that will become the large submarine station that houses its Jaegers, the “Shatterdome”.
The set is a lot busier on closer look. Groups of military and scientists across multiple ethnicities stroll the same carefully choreographed route after every call of action. Trucks trundle across the tarmac, reverse, then do it again. Earth’s last line of defence has changed in the 10 years since the events of the first film, and Pan Pacific Defence Corps is now a humming homogeneous organisation, united across all countries in its efforts to defend humanity against the omnipresent threat of the Kaijus.
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The set is a lot busier on closer look. Groups of military and scientists across multiple ethnicities stroll the same carefully choreographed route after every call of action. Trucks trundle across the tarmac, reverse, then do it again. Earth’s last line of defence has changed in the 10 years since the events of the first film, and Pan Pacific Defence Corps is now a humming homogeneous organisation, united across all countries in its efforts to defend humanity against the omnipresent threat of the Kaijus.
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