Real Steel gets its real release date

Melissa Molina — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:00:15 +0000

Dreamworks and Touchstone Pictures announced the new release date for Real Steel which is really far away from now within most of our minds. November 18th, 2011 is when the Hugh Jackman starring film is set to be released with Shawn Levy directing the flick.

In the sci-fi action-adventure, Hugh Jackman will play an ex-fighter who becomes a promoter when human boxing is outlawed for being too violent. The new gladiators are 2,000-pound robots with human qualities. The ex-fighter’s access to sub-standard robot parts hampers his hopes for glory in Robot Boxing, until he discovers a discarded robot that always seems to win. The ex-fighter has also discovered he’s the father of a 13-year old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top (Coming Soon).

Once again, the feature is based off of a short story created by Richard Matheson with Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg acting as executive producers.

Jackman is the Real Steel

Melissa Molina — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:54:22 +0000

Hugh Jackman is going crazy over robots as he signs on to star in Real Steel. The Shawn Levy directed feature is under Dreamworks with Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider overseeing the production. The movie is originally based on a short story created by Richard Matheson with an interesting take to begin with. Here’s more straight from Variety:

Story centers on a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by robots. Jackman will play a struggling Robot Boxing promoter who finds a discarded robot that always seems to win. He also discovers he has a 11-year-old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top.

Although grounded in the father-son relationship, Levy describes the film as a “rousing sports movie” with Jackman’s character “a former boxer who can no longer do the only job he’s good at, and one particular robot that may be his return to grace.”

“When we took it with us, we really highlighted it as something we would put the pedal to metal on,” said DreamWorks co-president of production Mark Sourian. “It’s a project that Steven always wanted to do. It just came together rapidly after we left Paramount.”

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Real Steel gets its real release date

Jackman is the Real Steel