It's been announced that Dreamworks' first production under their recent $825mil refinancing deal will be the Hugh Jackman sci-fi/boxing hybrid Real Steel and frankly, it sounds like it's going to be a shocker...Adapted from a short story by Richard Matheson and directed by Shawn Levy (the heart-breakingly talented auteur behind such masterstrokes as Cheaper By The Dozen and Night At The Museum), film is set in a future where robots fight against each other for sport, with Jackman starring as a down-on-his-luck ex-boxer looking for redemption by taking a particularly skilled robot to the top. Oh, and he reconnects with his son, of course!
Terrified yet? You should be - the premise sounds like a bunch of corn balls, Jackman's not exactly on a roll (Australia, Wolverine both duds) and the last movie based on a Matheson story was The Box, which may well be quite good (it opens in the UK next week) but it didn't exactly shit up the US box-office. Still, apparently Spielberg's behind the project all the way and with everything in place for a June 2010 shoot, there's still plenty of time to fix this thing before it hits cinemas. And we all enjoyed Surrogates, right? RIGHT?
Variety has the story.
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