First Photos: Real Steel
Update:This story has been updated with an additional photo and both photos are now uncropped and high resolution images.
Dreamworks/Walt Disney Pictures has released the first couple production photos fromShawn Levy’s futuristic robot boxing movieReal Steel.. Want to see a glimpse of what the robotic boxing robots of the future look like? Hit the jump.
USA Today has a story running on Tuesday witha couple interesting bits:
Read the whole article onUSAToday.com.
The film, set to hit theaters on November 18th 2011, tells the story of a father and his estranged 11-year-old son who enter the world of robotic boxing. You see, in the future, human boxing has been outlawed, replaced with sports combat between human-trained 2000-pound heavy steel robots. Levy has described the story as “rousing sports movie”.
Hugh Jackmanwill play an ex-fighter who has “to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by robots” and finds that he has an 11-year-old son. He decides to become a promoter , but “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.” He bonds with his son over the robot fights.
Davis will join 11-year-old CanadianDakota Goyo, who plays the lead role — Max, described as “a street-smart, tough, charming kid with a hard, untrusting outer shell which hides a warm enthusiastic spirit beneath. He is a complicated, strong-willed and resourceful boy.” Kevin Durand also co-stars as a Texan promoter of robot boxing.Anthony Mackie(The Hurt Locker) will play a boxing promoter andEvangeline Lilly(Lost) will portray a friend of Jackman’s character.Hope Davis(About Schmidt),James Rebhorn(Independence Day, The Game) andOlga Fonda(Love Hurts) also have roles.
