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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