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A gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech, Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a ...
- An Airport Meet-Cute
- Booting Up The Film
- Robot Costars
- Pour Some Sugar on Ray
- A State A-Fair
- The Robot Boxing Underworld
- Up and Atom
- A Robot League of Their Own
- The Real Steel Cinematic Universe?
HUGH JACKMAN (CHARLIE): I remember meeting Shawn in an airport lounge. What city was that? Do you remember? SHAWN LEVY (DIRECTOR):It was New York, and we were strangers. I believe we were both with our families. I could see he was a phone-charger short. JACKMAN: I didn't have anything; my phone was about to run out. I asked Shawn [for a charger], a...
Levy and Jackman saw approximately 100 child actors to cast the role of Max. About five kids were selected to do a screen test with Jackman, one of whom was Goyo, the then-10-year-old from Toronto. LEVY: Dakota, we found you from your first audition, and then I remember we brought you out from Toronto, right? Another fellow Canadian! I mostly hired...
Levy had multiple remote-controlled practically built robots to join the actors on set during filming, including for the 'bots named Atom, Noisy Boy, Ambush, and Zeus. The robots were made and puppeteered by the company Legacy, while the motion-capture and VFX work used to capture the more extensive robot movements were technology first utilized fo...
Ray Charles Leonard, a.k.a. former professional boxer and Hall of Famer "Sugar" Ray Leonard, served as an advisor on Real Steel. He showed Jackman some moves and worked on the movements for the robot fights. LEVY: I remember when Hugh came in for fight choreography, and we're there with Garrett [Warren], who was our stunt coordinator, and Sugar Ray...
The production built the opening scene — a robot match between the robot Ambush and a bull during a state fair — outside of Detroit, Mich. Levy's daughters made cameos as young girls asking Charlie to show them Ambush. JACKMAN: Shawn gave me a CD of the music that he imagined for the movie. With most movies, you don't always get the money for that....
Filming continued around the Detroit area. For the underground boxing fight where Charlie and Max take Noisy Boy to meet Finn and fight against Midas, Levy shot in Highland Park.When the fight begins, Mackie channeled his inner Don King. LEVY: Midas' human operator who has one eye is [played by] Garrett Warren, who was our stunt coordinator on that...
Keeping with the practical aesthetic as much as possible, the production created another set for the Metal Valley sequence, in which Charlie and Max first discover Atom when the boy slides down a muddy drop in the middle of the rain after Noisy Boy gets pummeled in a match. LEVY: We built that mountain, we built that sluice with just gallons and ga...
For the finale Robot League match between Atom (dubbed the People's Champion) and reigning champ Zeus, production turnedthe Cobo Arena in downtown Detroit into a massive stage with thousands of people. Goyo makes his grand entrance with Atom into the ring, as he did in earlier scenes, dancing a choreographed routine up to the ring as the crowd chee...
How far did a Real Steelsequel get? Not very. JACKMAN: The sequel never happened because I don't believe in them. I've never done a sequel, it's just not, I just don't believe it should be part of an actor's career at all. [Laughs] LEVY: We had some ideas right as we were finishing the movie, but none of them felt fully formed and special enough. A...
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Oct 5, 2011 · Real Steel is 1234 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 245 places since yesterday. In the United Kingdom, it is currently more popular than Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara but less popular than Steve Jobs. 1230.
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Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) used to be a prizefighter but lost his chance to win a title when heavy, towering robots took over the boxing ring. Now working as a small-time promoter, Charlie ...
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- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Dec 9, 2010 · Yesterday brought us the Transformers 3 teaser trailer.Today, as if in response to Michael Bay's third entry in his battling robots franchise (which he swears is the best yet) comes the teaser trailer for Real Steel, the movie starring Hugh Jackman (The Wolverine) as a fighter who gets a second chance at glory in the ring via the world robot battling.
Oct 7, 2011 · Purchase Real Steel on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Enter the not-so-distant future where boxing has gone high-tech - 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots have taken over the ring. Starring Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter turned small-time promoter, Real Steel is a riveting, white-knuckle action ride that will leave you cheering. When Charlie hits rock ...
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Real Steel: Directed by Shawn Levy. With Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie. In a near future where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.
