Hellboy actor joins Guillermo del Toro’s epic monster flick . . .

Pacific Rim bannerRon Perlman has reunited with the Hellboy director for Pacific Rim, which the director has described as “very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters.”

The movie started filming on Monday and is slated for a May 10th, 2013 release date.

According to del Toro the movie is about “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.”

The movie also stars Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Charlie Hunnam.