While it's always great to talk to the actors and the director on a set visit, if you want to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of making a movie, one of the best people to talk with is the producer. After all, they're intricately involved in all of the big decisions and they usually have a great story or two to share. And in the case of Pacific Rim executive producer Callum Greene, the same holds true. During a intimate group interview on the Toronto set last year, Greene talked about making Pacific Rim, how the story and script changed during the development process, how no matter how much money you have it's never enough, the visual effects, the release date, and so much more. Hit the jump for what he had to say. CALLUM GREENE: I started with Guillermo [del Toro] on The Hobbit. This is our fourth year coming up of working together. This is one of the many projects that Guillermo was juggling around with when we started. When Mountains of Madness got put on the shelf, this was the next project up and we rolled right into it. He'd been talking about it for a long time, but then the switch to actually making it happen was a matter of days to Mountains going down, which was a Thursday and I think we were on to this by Monday. That would have been last year -- March sometime. When you get a script and you're getting started, then when you get on set, it changes dramatically. How has this ...
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