Toronto 2011: Guillermo del Toro and 'Pacific Rim' to Take Over Pinewood Toronto Studios

TORONTO -- Guillermo del Toro flying solo on Pacific Rim means the Hollywood director is about to take over Pinewood Toronto Studios.

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The mechas vs. monsters movie from Legendary Pictures has scheduled 132 shooting days on five of the seven soundstages at the Toronto mega-studio from October 2011 to May 2012.

It turns out del Toro will not have a second unit on Pacific Rim, as the tentpole picture is known.

So he’ll be constantly shuttling between the five soundstages at Pinewood Toronto so he can shoot the picture with a single vision.

Pacific Rim, which stars Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day and Idris Elba, is slated for a July 21, 2013 release date by Warner Bros.

The monster movie sees a powerful extraterrestrial force threaten the Earth's existence, with humans uniting to fight them off.