Kazinski Joins; Dafoe Around The Rim

Young Brit soap star Robert Kazinsky is in while Willem Dafoe is in early talks to join Guillermo del Toro's alien-invasion thriller Pacific Rim, reports Variety.

The story is set in 2025, twelve years into a war against alien creatures who reside in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 

Kazinsky would play a member of the team trying to defeat the invaders. Dafoe is being eyed as a rogue scientist with expertise on alien creatures.

Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi Max Martini.also star in GdT-directed 2013 release

Travis Beacham penned the screenplay

Thomas Tull Jon Jashni, del Toro. and Callum Greene will produce.

Production is expected to get underway this fall.