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" I actually got into 'Ultraman' through the video games first, before I realized they were based on something. You remember how they had those fighting Ultraman video games? That's how I got into it. Then I started watching the show. Their kaiju look so weird. "

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Travis Beacham

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See

Strength

" Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in. "

" I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me. "

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Write

People

" I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud. "

" I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums. "

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Feel

Source

" The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It exists. "

" I do tend to be on the more optimistic end of things. "

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Tend

Optimistic

" When you watch zombie movies, and people say, 'What's going on? What are we going to do?' it's like they live in a world where they've never seen zombie movies. "

" We wanted it to be that you could go to the comic shop and read about the back story of 'Pacific Rim' and the drama inherent in it. "

" I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking. "

Travis Beacham

Filmmaking

Work

" If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series. "

" Legendary is in the unique position in that they have the resources to take risks, which I think has really benefitted 'Pacific Rim.' "

" If you look, like, in 1960, there was no such thing as an astronaut. It was a totally fanciful concept, but nine years later or whatever, we were landing on the moon, which is just astonishing. "

" I would love to have more original material developed. 'Pacific Rim' has made that slightly more possible. "

" In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit. "

" Once you start putting in political subtext, it does create intellectually challenging science-fiction, but with 'Pacific Rim,' I always thought it would be a shame if kids couldn't go see this movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters because it seemed to have a political point of view. "

" With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that. "

" I was way into 'Voltron,' Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs - for a while, I wanted to be a paleontologist. So it's almost like primal, ancestral mythology to me, this fascination with monsters. "

Travis Beacham

Way

Ray

" We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process. "

" There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know. "

" I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi. "

" One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory. "

" That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something. "

Travis Beacham

Remember

React

" Usually, you come into it, and there's half a dozen different views or angles on what different people are wanting to see, from the producer to the director to the writers to the actors. I think 'Pacific Rim' has been an example of something that illustrates what you get if everyone is driving towards a common purpose. "

" I remember starting working on the concept and the script for 'Pacific Rim' with a very, very conscious decision to say, 'I don't want any of these big sequences to take place in America,' because I feel like that's become so regular to the disaster genre, and then it sort of devolves into landmark stomping. "

" Where do you go after something like 'Pacific Rim?' Which, for me, was such a moment, to have this thing and see it all come together, and it's big, and it has this cult following... You ask yourself, 'What's next?' "

" If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would probably be 'Pacific Rim.' "

" The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process. "

Travis Beacham

Writer

Film

" When you have a movie that has big stars in it... like, Will Smith does a great job in 'I Am Legend,' and it's a magnetic performance, but he's always Will Smith. That's not his fault. That's not anyone's fault. He's the center of it, and he's a movie star. But when you see something like 'Jurassic Park,' Sam Neill is Alan Grant. "

" I'm so enthralled with the whole universe of 'Pacific Rim.' I never get tired of it. I could do a sequel or two without ever getting sick of it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime idea that you never get sick of. "