Real Steel Movie Trailer
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MPAA Rating: PG-13, for some violence, intense action and brief languageGenre: Action/drama
Runtime: Approx. 128 minutes
Starring:Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Director: Shawn Levy
Release Date: October 7, 2011 (Conventional theaters/IMAX)
Real Steel - Official Synopsis
In DreamWorks Pictures’ gritty, white-knuckle action ride Real Steel, Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up boxer in the near-future who, because his sport has been taken over by 8-foot steel robots, now lives in a world where he doesn’t fit in.
With no fights and no prospects, Charlie is forced to hustle as a small-time robot fight promoter. He earns just enough money to survive by piecing together low-end “bots” and traveling from one seamy underground boxing venue to the next for whatever prizefight he can wrangle for his automatons. Just when things can’t become any more desperate and complicated, his estranged 10-year-old son Max (Dakota Goyo) suddenly and unwillingly comes back into his life.
The alienated father/son duo reluctantly team up to rebuild and train a scrap-heap robot and turn it into a boxing contender. As stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred fighting arenas are raised, against all odds Charlie gets one last shot at a comeback, and Max discovers that, win or lose, life holds more for him than he ever expected.
Real Steel - Clips and Features
Real Steel Featurette: Main Event
Real Steel - Fun Facts About the Bots
In order to make the robot fights realistic, the filmmakers used motion capture technology with real boxers whose moves were choreographed by none other than stunt master Garrett Warren and boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard.
Director Shawn Levy says in the production notes, that he and the special effects team “borrowed many pages from the technology that James Cameron developed for ‘Avatar.’” They took motion-capture footage and plugged that into a real world setting in order to make the robot fights look absolutely real.
Here is how Levy describes the process in layman's terms, "We put fighters in the ring wearing data capturing jumpsuits. They do the fight. Their moving data––the data that is their motion––is converted into a robot avatar on the screen simultaneously. Then we’re able to go to our live fight venue, line up a camera on an empty ring, and the technology allows you to take the robot fighting that you did six months earlier and put it in that ring in real time as you’re watching it. And that’s Simul-Cam B."
The main robots in the film each have a distinct look and personality, and they are sure to capture the attention of viewers, especially the boys in the audience. Here are the most important robot characters who dominate both in the boxing ring and on the screen:
- Atom (the "hero" robot)
- Zeus (the unbeatable "Death Star")
- Midas (a brawler who wins by any means necessary)
- Noisy Boy (a former league bot who now fights in underworld venues)
- Ambush (a low-rent circuit bot)
- Twin Cities (a vicious two-headed bot)
- Metro (who looks like a beat up Frankenstein)
Real Steel - Note to Parents
Obviously, with a PG-13 rating this film isn't for young children; however, it is being billed as a family film for those with kids old enough to enjoy it. In the production notes, Producer Don Murphy says, “I think ‘Real Steel’ has something for everybody. It’s got boxing for the men, robots for the boys, Hugh Jackman for the ladies, and the family aspect for everybody.”
Premised on the futuristic sport of robots ripping each other to shreds, the movie will contain a significant amount of violence, and there will also be thematic elements concerning the father-son relationship. The movie also contains some brief language. More details on the content of the movie are coming soon in our full review of the movie.