Watch ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ Destroy Sydney | Anatomy of a Scene

Staging a giant Jaeger battle in the middle of Sydney is not easy, especially when one of them has flaming chainsaws as a weapon. The director Steven S. DeKnight discusses how he and his visual effects team pulled it off in a sequence featuring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood and the slicing and dicing of some Sydney skyscrapers. The Sydney Opera House also makes an appearance.

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