Compared with the huge investment of nearly 200 million US dollars in "Pacific Rim", the cost of "Atlantic Rim" of US$500,000 is almost just the box lunch money of the "Pacific Rim" crew. Cost constraints limit them to a third-rate cast, less-than-professional performances, on-the-spot scripts, and sci-fi elements full of spoof spirit. You should always be ready to see the robot use a weapon similar to a fly swatter to meet the enemy, and don't make a fuss if you think the special effects are a bit like " Blue Cat's Naughty 3000 Questions ", because they have done their best! In addition, every expression of the extras usually has a certain connotation. For example, if you see an actor who is surprised, it should mean that a monster has started to attack the city.
However, although it is a copycat, the plot is really original, because it is generally listed earlier than the film of the copycat. The screenwriter will get inspiration from the title, poster and trailer released before the release of the copycat film, and freely play and fill the original plot under the framework of other people's stories. Founder Larter himself prefers the term "remake". He thinks that The Asylum's films are just a hit-and-run, hitchhiking with blockbuster movies. In fact, they use his own original stories. Although low-cost production, all the works they shoot are very serious. They never laugh at themselves or spoof others in the film. They only laugh at those crazy manufacturers who spent hundreds of millions to make a bad movie.
Because of the requirements of the shooting cycle, the filming speed of the crew is very amazing, with an average of 12-15 pages of script content per day. If there is a problem with the script during filming, the members of the crew also need to make changes while ensuring the amount of work. So directors, producers, and third-rate actors in the crew often need to "improvise". For example, "Atlantic Rim", which had only 15 days of shooting, was suddenly told on the 11th day that the air force base that needed to shoot the main scene was not allowed to use it for free. Because after reading the script, the commander there thought that the soldiers in the movie disobeyed military orders casually and behaved in a sloppy manner, which was a very bad behavior. So the producer had to drive to find a new shooting location, and finally found a private heliport, which was later broken into seven petals by the director and used to shoot seven different scenes.
