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Hugh Jackman To Star In Robot Boxing Movie

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 12:16 am

[Cue Don LaFontaine voice]

Imagine a world… In which the last human boxers… Have been crushed… By machines. Mechanical titans rule the ring… And one man’s destiny… Lies… With them. This… Is the world… Of… Real Steel.

I didn’t make that up. Here’s a bunch of other stuff that I didn’t make up:

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.

“The heart of the story is this father and son relationship and in comes this junkyard robot called Atom that the kid’s in love with,” Jackman says. “I abandoned the kid pretty much at birth. But we come together because the boy’s mother has died. We have a lot of distance to make up. It’s through this mutual interest in robot boxing that they find a way to come together and form a bond.”

The one immediately redeeming feature of this move is that it’s not all CGI… Nineteen eight-foot tall boxing robots were created for the human actors to interact with. So, that’s cool, I guess.

Real Steel will be in theaters in November of 2011.

VIA [ USA Today ]

Comments (10)

Category: Pop Culture

10 Comments

Comment by whiskers

Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 6:56 am

Investigating father-son relationships via the medium of robot boxing. Yeah, Hollywood is not out of ridiculous ideas at all.

Comment by Melissa

Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 12:10 pm

You totally made that up.

Comment by Andrew S. Parnell

Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 1:57 pm

5 words come to mind:
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots

(I approve)

Comment by Goose

Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 3:51 pm

My thoughts exactly ^

Comment by Zool

Made Wednesday, 16 of June , 2010 at 4:15 pm

My first thought (from the first few lines of the description) is that it sounded like a remake of Robot Jox, which would have been really cool if it was. i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Jox

But by the end of the description, with the crazy rubbish ideas about boxing ring, ex-boxer and his son etc… I’m having a hard time believing even Hollywood could come up with such a poor contrived concept for a film yet sadly it looks like its really going into production! i.e.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433035/

I think a better name for it would be “Rocky Robot” … or maybe “Rocky 3 Ripoff Robot Rubbish” ;)

So many cool ideas for Robots and yet they have to throw an estimated budget of $80,000,000 at this rubbish idea?! … I don’t get it. :(

Comment by FelipeChoque

Made Thursday, 17 of June , 2010 at 10:22 am

OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Comment by FelipeChoque

Made Thursday, 17 of June , 2010 at 10:26 am

As long as it’s a bit more about robots and less about normal drama, we’re good.

Comment by Rob

Made Friday, 27 of August , 2010 at 11:59 am

Wolverine could take down silly boxing robots…

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