Hugh Jackman Cast as Lead in REAL STEEL
Hugh Jackman is to take the lead in robot movie REAL STEEL. The 'X-Men' actor has been lined up to play an unlucky Robot Boxing promoter in the first film Steven Spielberg and movie boss Stacey Snider will release through the recently-changed DreamWorks.
The plotline is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and will see the 41-year-old hunk's luck change when he finds a discarded robot who has a secret talent as a boxer.
Director Shawn Levy said: "It is a rousing sports movie about a former boxer who can no longer do the only job he's good at, and one particular robot that may be his return to grace."
Reel Star will be the first film for DreamWorks since the movie company split from Paramount last year. The script - which was originally penned by Dan Gilroy - is one of the 17 projects Spielberg and Snider took [...]
