First look at REAL STEEL, a movie about robots, boxing, and Hugh Jackman
First look at REAL STEEL, a movie about robots, boxing, and Hugh Jackman
Jun 15
I’m not entirely sure how the pieces of this puzzle fit together. Shawn Levy (whose illustrious career includes such smash-hits as Just Married, Cheaper By The Dozen, The Pink Panther, both Night At The Museum films and this year’s Date Night) is in the director’s chair, and Hugh Jackman is heading up the marquee; but the movie itself is about boxing robots. Let that sink in for a moment.
A vague synopsis (quoted in full below) makes the movie sound like a father-son bonding movie crossed with an underdog sports flick, with humans taking care of the former plot and robots taking care of the latter, so I don’t know what to think. Real Steel is due in November 2011, so hopefully the pieces will fall into place by then.
The only reason I thought to post this was the Tron-esque 80s digital robot design. Check it out.
The story, set in 2020, features Jackman as an out-of-work fighter who bonds with his estranged son when they go to work rescuing a junkyard find named Atom, and grooming it as a potential champion in the World Robot Boxing league.
It always amazes me on how Hollywood makes a board game into a movie
This is a board game? That explains how stupid it is.
This looks like it will confirm that Hugh Jackman only makes decent movies when he plays Wolverine. And by that I mean X-men 1 & 2.