Quote from: Magegg on Jul 29, 2013, 04:21:50 AM
Quote from: Shasvre on Mar 11, 2011, 03:33:03 PMThe central character is Raleigh Antrobus, 23, a skilled Jaeger pilot still wrestling emotionally with the loss of his co-pilot and biological brother, Yance, during a mission a year earlier. The ordeal has wreaked havoc on his mind spirit, leaving him with ghostly nightmares of the battle from the shared "pons" experience. After the initial setup, the damaged hero is recruited to re-join the task force in Tokyo, where pilots are in demand, and team with a fellow "leftover," 22-year-old female Japanese pilot Mako Mori. Naturally, the language barrier (among other things) presents an issue for the out-of-sync duo, meaning an even steeper learning curve for the unprecedented pairing. Meanwhile, Felicity "Flick" Kincaid, a journalist and Yance's former fiancée, circles the globe (ours) to discover answers about this mysterious rift and the origins of its intensifying threat.
Eh??
We'll be seeing her in the sequel?
Instead of Newt tracking down Hannibal for a kaiju brain, in the original draft, he and Flick track down a scientist in the Aussie outback to learn about how they can destroy the interstice. The scientist has a kaiju brain, has drifted with it, and what he saw drove him insane. He detonates a nuke. Flick and Newt barely make it out, shortly after Flick drifts with the kaiju brain and sees what the scientist saw. After this, they know how to destroy the interstice: Nuke the throat.
While Flick didn't make it into the movie, a reporter with a different name appears in the prequel comics who flirts with Yance and Raleigh, leading to some conflict between them.
