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Spielberg and Wolverine teaming up for a robot drama called REAL STEEL?!?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here taking a break from the Holiday Gift Guide to run a little spot o' news for ya' this morning. I love me some Steven Spielberg (obviously) and I love me some Hugh Jackman (WOLVERINE: ORIGINS notwithstanding) and more importantly I love the sound of this project they're doing together.
According to Variety this movie called Real Steel will be the first film Spielberg produces using his newly acquired Indian monies. For a relatively small sum of $80 million we'll be getting a drama about a boxer who is put out of work when robots replace all human fighters. He reinvents himself as a promoter while bonding with an 11 year old son he didn't know he had.
Yeah, there's some schmaltz in that premise, but don't forget it's based on a Richard Matheson short story... and I personally love the idea of the robot stuff taking a back seat, being texture of the world and not the point of it. If done in a realistic way this could be pretty great stuff.
Now Shawn Levy isn't exactly the first name I think of when I think of serious sci-fi drama, but I guess the beard sees something there and I trust that's for good reason. Night at the Museum and The Pink Panther remake... this is your chance, Shawn! You have the tools, let's see you make something kick-ass.
Thoughts?
-Quint
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I dunno.....
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...a total shitfest.
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with a father-and-son bit tagged on for human interest; not grabbing me.
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and Hugh Jackman is an inspired choice to play an aging fighter whose prime years were cut down by a law banning flesh on flesh boxing fights.
The Twilight Zone episode, much like The Box... has HUGE room for expansion as it merely hints at the wider scope of things (why it was outlawed, how the mechanics work, etc.).
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Really bad, QOS bad!
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Along with Matt Helm, Harvey, Oldboy, Pirate Lattitudes, Lincoln, Interstellar, and whatever the hell else Spielberg has in development, yet can't seem to get made...
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where my lincoln bio pic. if i wanted giant robots fighting ill turn to micheal bay
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Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, anybody?
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comes another robot movie! At least The Pacific should be good.
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One of the few I've never been able to stomach.
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What don't you like about it?
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Wait, I didn't read the article - not a sequel to his great film?
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And to be honest, I just felt it was always one of the weaker ones. I may be biased, never ever had any interest in boxing, or Lee Marvin, (he was in that one, right)?
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He his squandering away his prime years on shit movies.
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Just like they did with I Robot and others? Marvellous!
Hollywood proves yet again that they haven't a fucking clue when it comes to sci fi, and all Americans really want are movies that say "I love you Dad" -
This such a stupid idea!!! BTW, I told you that Hollywood sold the Best Picture Oscar to get investor monies from India. Slum Dog Millionaire being heralded by Hollywood...was just pandering for investment monies.
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Nov 24, 2009 6:34:53 AM CST
It's the Spielberg-soon-to-be-cancelled project of the week!
by ricarleite2
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Now if it was robots that replaced UPF style fighting...mixed in with battlebots...that'd be something
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let's face it, Spielberg lost his mojo after Jurassic Park.
He's become predictable & pedestrian.
His films no longer hold the excitement they once did.
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...will dance and sing in an elaborate and festive robot musical number in this one? Didn't think so.
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...we've all been waiting for.Sounds more interesting than I expected.
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You know Jackman will end up fighting the robot in the end.
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word.
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of the mechanical tiger, it's the thrill of the robot fight. Powering up to the denial of service attacks of our competing models.
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The Prestige son?! That shit was badass.
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I mean, let's face it. We're not exactly dealing with a spotless track record.
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...mixing up footage from old ROCKEM SOCKEM ROBOTS commercials, ROCKY, MILLION DOLLAR BABY, WOLVERINE, and random Jackman clips.Someone here must have the time and skills to throw this together...
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fuck the beard after what he did to indiana jones.
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I just want to clarify that Jackman has done one good non-Xmen movie (and those sucked, too, by the way)-- The Prestige.
I've totally lost faith in Spielberg at this point. Kind of sad actually -
someone give his ass a hug already.
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That is all.
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they made this into a twilight zone episode called "steel", I guess they needed to change the name to differentiate it from the funderful Shaq movie
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Spoiler: the promoter has to pretend to be a robot to fight and stays in the ring while he's beaten by a robot.
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And the last know mechanical survivor stalks his robot pray in the night and he's watching us all with the infared android eye...
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A soldier from a galactic empire who finds himself incased in a metal suit of battle armor.
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As long as it has a cute kid in it, I'm all for it. Please kill me.
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Then count me in! Gotta sing! Gotta dance!
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I read this like a month ago somewhere. The story is that Jackman finds a busted old robot in the trash who somehow can't be "knocked out," so the old boxer trains the old robot to be a champ. Worst movie idea ever?
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...I'm in. Predicted ending: "Get up, Champ!"
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This is Crystal Skull mode Spielberg firing on all cylinders.
Why not make the OBVIOUS story in that world: Jackman comes out of retirement to FIGHT ROBOTS IN THE RING.
How fucking hard was that?
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Robot boxers? That's completely retarded. And I'm getting pretty fucking sick of the "kid he didn't know he had" premise. Want more robot stories? Asimov did shitloads of them! Do those for fuck's sake!
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Or, in this case, too stupid.
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Your snark is FUCKING with Richard Matheson and The Twilight Zone. You do not fuck with the masters. You bow. NOW BOW.
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Hugh Jackman needs a better agent.
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Change the fucking channel Steve!
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Man, Marvin never ever seemed to be a young guy. Just always a guy at the end of his rope. Anyway, it was a really cool, emotional episode, one of those TZ episodes about the indominatable human spirit fighting against obsolesence. Didn't remember a kid in the story, which worries me.
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Hopefully he finds other roles. Because singing @ oscar ceremonies starts to lose its novelty after a while.
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Awesome. (Oy vey.)
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That was exactly what I was thinking considering all of the movie adaptations based on toy franchises that are out now. Personally, Im still looking forward to Silly Putty: the movie. In a world where everything is stretchy and bouncy, only one man, who can physically copy anything from paper, will be stretched to his limits and ultimately save the world from its own stringy fate.
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Maybe we'll find out if Jackman or Tom Cruise throws more like a girl.
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So Jackman flips a switch and so does the robot. Rick Zumwalt as the robot.
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been like that for some time...don't get why someone with $3 billion would whore themselves out for a few extra hundred million but it's just the way it works with these guys.
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Nov 24, 2009 4:07:47 PM CST
is this meant to imply that Shaq's was in some way fake?
by jackknifed_juggernaut
oh snap. it's on. steel beef.
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Nov 24, 2009 4:54:55 PM CST
what is with American movies and the whole father/son bonding th
by famouseccles
My Da spent half his time kicking the shit out of me and we get on just fine. Actually he probably still could.
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Wasn't this an Episode of the Jetsons?
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Really Quint? Really? Is the site that hard up?
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That movie was awesome.
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next project the godfather in space.
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I stand corrected...I'll also give him props for The Fountain...but other then those two he hasn't done shit. He's in the tenth year of his career now - time to put up or shut up. I'm still pissed about Australia - don't get me started on that boring, long, PC piece of shit.
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I heard Spielberg had money invested with Bernie Madoff and lost a lot. This movie is just one in a long line of things we've heard he's been up to but vanish. I'm worried that Spielberg may somehow be hard up for cash and this era he's in will be the low spot of his career. Like when Coppola lost all of his money and had to churn out Studio Crap like Dracula and Jack. I just hope this isn't the case. Even Tarantino commented when Basterds came out that he's lost respect for some of the older directors because their work has declined in quality and they're making cash grab movies basically just to live the lifestyle they've molded. I think Spielberg has like 10 adopted children as well and some of these projects seem like they're being done to keep them in the ivy league. By the way, "TINTIN" seems like it will be horrible. No one in the states is THAT familiar with that character.
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Please tell me that's not the story. PLEASE.
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Refer to Hugh Jackoff as Wolverine.
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and he obviously saw something in crystal skull and a nuke and a fridge. obviously, it's without question now that the beard one is completely and utterly fucking BLIND!
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"Giant Robot! Launch!"
"Giant Robot! Destroy that thing!" -
Said in raspy George Lucas voice like in that PURE GENIUS youtube video, "How They Might Fuck Up Indiana Jones 4." Isn't Spielberg worth like FOUR BILLION DOLLARS? Could he really have invested all of it in Madoff? Did he pull a Costanza? (Don't you love that we can say that now with the Seinfeld reunion?) Seriously, though, after the news about the cancellation of his last two projects, could his power and influence really be waning? Hollywood is full of bottom feeding fucking vultures, and I'm sure he's the one person they'd all take pleasure in saying no to. But as far as him being broke, the thing about people like him is that they're a few Transformers and Jurassic Park sequels away from being a BILLIONAIRE yet again. It's something the creative types have over the investment banker/company types. You can always go back to the creative well and mint more money. Spielberg once said about Lucas, "George Lucas has a bank and it's called Star Wars." Yeah, I wouldn't worry about these guys ever going broke...
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I never thought I'd see the day when it was truly over for these guys. And even if the day did come, I thought maybe it would be in their late 70's.
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Because that'd be awesome. But otherwise, I don't want another Guy Bonding With His Kid movie.
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Nov 25, 2009 5:00:05 AM CST
Seriously, if this isn't a John Henry Story then fuck it
by gilbertrsmith
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...yawn..that sounds...yawn..great! Call me when it moves on to DVD so I can skip it then too..
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havent seen my dad since I was five and Im twenty-one now so personally I could care less about a movie like this.
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