Of course Perlman has worked previously with Del Toro on 'Hellboy' and it's 2008 sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
The story is set in 2025, twelve years into a war against alien creatures who reside in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
del Toro says that the film is a "very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crap out of 25-story-high monsters. We're trying to create a world in which the characters are real and how it would affect our world politically, how it would affect the landscape if creatures like this really came out of the sea, etc."
Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi Max Martini. Robert Kazinsky Clifton Collins Jr Diego Klattenhoff and Willem Dafoe also star in GdT-directed 2013 release.
Travis Beacham penned the screenplay.
Thomas Tull Jon Jashni, del Toro. Mary Parent and Callum Greene will produce.
The pic began filming on Monday.