Real Steel

• Hugh Jackman Charlie Kenton
• Dakota Goyo: Max Kenton
• Evangeline Lilly Bailey Tallet
• Kevin Durand: Ricky
• Anthony Mackie: Finn
• James Rebhorn Marvin
• Hope Davis: Debra
• Olga Fonda Farra Lemcova
• Karl Yune Tak Mashido

Real Steel ( Alternative title: Real Steel - Steel Tough opponents ) is an American- Indian science fiction film directed by Shawn Levy from 2011 The film with Hugh Jackman in the lead role was launched on November 3, 2011 in the German cinemas. of.

Action

In 2020, people will be replaced by robots in boxing ring. Away from the official league takes the main character Charlie Kenton, a former boxer himself an active, as a coach or robot controller to privately organized robot battles in part; but only with moderate success. For this, he travels with a truck through the countryside. His girlfriend is Bailey, the owner of that boxing arena, where her father once coached Charlie. It supports Charlie in the maintenance of the robot, but is lack of money shortly before giving up.

After a fight against a bull, in which his robot was wrecked, he learns that his former girlfriend has died and their son Max - for which he has up to this point never really cared - now needs a new guardian. That's why Max's aunt Debra advertises with her ​​husband Marvin, and Charlie is at first quite happy about it. When Charlie but notice at the court hearing that Marvin is wealthy, he tells him that he only gives custody of Max, if it does get $ 100,000. But Max should first spend the summer holidays with him, because Marvin would like to visit alone with Debra friends in Italy. Charlie gets the first $ 50,000, as Debra and Marvin Max leave with him.

With the money, Charlie buys the former Champ- fighting robots " Noisy Boy" and was driving without a lot of training for the first fight. But he must take with Max, because he has the keys to his truck. As a lark, Charlie chooses the final boss " Midas " and Noisy Boy is defeated and destroyed, because Charlie can not handle the new voice control and the attacks does not know. On the way back Charlie and Max stop at a junkyard to steal robot spare parts to it to build a new robot. When Max slides down a slope in the pouring rain, the fall is only by a robotic arm on which he hangs stopped in depth. Max noticed that in the mud a whole robot is buried and takes him against the will of Charlies.

Charlie wants the robot named "Atom" sell because it appears to him worthless because Atom is just a sparring robot of the second generation, although it take a lot, but can dish out. However, Max is adamantly opposed to a sale. Bailey puts Atom makeshift repair. When he imitates Max's movements, she realizes that atom has a rare Shadow Function. Max trained with atom and asks Charlie to get him a fight, which takes place a little later in an old zoo. Contrary to expectations, wins atom and Max and Charlie get an invitation to another fight. Atom popularity and acquaintance increases with each subsequent fight, because until then atom is undefeated until they receive an offer for a fight in the Roboterboxliga WRB. Max has built the meantime various components of Charlie's previous robots, including the speech recognition of Noisy Boy in atom. They are prior to the battle invited to the Lodge of the owner of the current champions "Zeus", where the offer is made to them, not to compete in a league battle and nuclear instead for $ 200,000 to sell. Charlie wants to accept the offer, but Max explains atom unsaleable because it was his robot. After the fight against the two-headed "Twin Cities" is obtained, Max asks the team of Zeus publicly out to fight. After the fight, Max and Charlie are caught and beaten up by one of Charlie's creditors. The total prize money is lost.

Charlie then calls to Max adoptive parents who pick him up. Charlie rejects the second $ 50,000 from Marvin. Max goes with reluctant and reveals Charlie, how disappointed he was by him, because he would not fight him. This was but everything he had ever wanted. Then Charlie replies that Max deserved something better than him. After a conversation with Charlie Bailey goes to the house of Debra and Marvin and begs for one last chance to make at least once something right. One sees atom on the road are and Charlie announces that the fight would take place against Zeus.

When it finally comes to a fight, the courses are high that atom not even the first of five rounds against Zeus is because it is so far undefeated and has his fights ended later than the second round. Even the first shock of Zeus sends atom on the boards, but he manages to get up again. Despite several rainfall manages atom having trouble up in the fourth round. However, due to the many hits then falls off the speech recognition, so atom no longer responds to Charlie's instructions and only by the Gong to a KO is preserved. Max talks so long a Charlie until he agrees to pretend the movements on the edge of the ring as a shadow boxer, which is to imitate one atom using the shadow function. So it is possible to bring Zeus to the brink of defeat, especially its energy reserves are running low until he can finally perform any more blows for a short time. Atom seizes the opportunity and boxing while at him until he has knocked down Zeus and gets counted. Zeus manages however to bring themselves back on their feet. Charlie strikes with nuclear then again and again without a break on a Zeus, however, make it no longer before the Endgong to send him again on the boards. Zeus wins narrowly on points. The financial backers of Zeus, Farra Lemcova, lets announce that it has indeed lasted longer, but the result is the planned. Tak Mashido, the programmer refused even appoint a comment on a question of ring judge, the atom to the champion of the heart or of the people.

Genesis

Real Steel is based on the dating from the 1956 short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson. This was broadcast in 1963 as a result of the series The Twilight Zone. According to Jones Movie is already " 2 Real Steel ' planned a sequel, which is to be implemented as soon as possible depending on the success of the first film.

Production

The director of the film led Shawn Levy, who had previously performed mainly in comedies directed.

The written by Dan Gilroy original screenplay was purchased by DreamWorks in 2005 for $ 850,000. According to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks purchased the project in 2003.

The film was one of 17 projects that DreamWorks in the separation of Paramount Pictures in 2008 took over. Director Peter Berg expressed interest in the film in mid-2009, however, moved the. September 2009, Levy joined the project, and the main role was occupied in November of Hugh Jackman. In the same month, Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider gave DreamWorks project the green light. According to Variety reported insider of a budget of 80 million U.S. dollars.

Les Bohem and Jeremy Leven worked on Gilroy's screenplay, but 2009 John Gatins began a new design. After Levy came to the project, he reworked the screenplay with Gatins. Matheson's story shows a cold feeling dystopia, but Levy continued the action in State Fair and other " old-fashioned " Americana settings to create nostalgia and give the father-son story a warmer touch.

The film was since filming began in June 2010, shot mostly in Michigan, including the Detroit area.

The makers produced 19 animatronic robots for use in scenes with human actors. For the scenes in which the boxing robots, motion capture was used. Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard served as a model for these scenes.

Marketing

The first trailer of Real Steel was released by DreamWorks in December 2010, the second was published in May 2011. During the film boxing robot shows, Levy was in the trailer, the " father-son drama, the feelings, the kind of rousing sports, the American is " show. The film, Levy says, show a lot of robot boxing, but that was merely a piece of a broader spectrum. In addition to marketing trailers and posters, DreamWorks enlisted the British advertising company Five33 to build large, the film representing advertising models as they already for Pirates of the Caribbean it: On Stranger Tides did.

Publication

Real Steel should appear on 18 November 2011 originally, but has been around the competition with Breaking Dawn - Part 1 to avoid, moved on 7 October 2011 in order to then be moved again - Bis (s ) at the end of the night November 3, 2011. Besides the conventional cinemas Real Steel will be released in IMAX theaters to be the audience between 18 and 34 years meet.

Reviews

" The simple but aufwartende with brilliant fight scenes mixture of robot spectacle and father-son drama thwarted their child-like futuristic content with an anchored in set design and the dialogues nostalgia that the old industrial America as reminiscence turns as the classic sports movie."

"Somehow want the two stories about the robot martial arts and the father-son relationship does not really fit together. In addition, the computer effects are not really succeeded in the robot - fighting. Obviously nothing director Shawn Levy ( " Night at the Museum " ) remained different choice than the disparate stories together to tinker. It is no wonder that much is wrong and everything looks bumpy and stoffelig. From the Australian Hollywood star Hugh Jackman would have been better entertainment awaits. "

" Levy told the old story of the no-good father who learns through the encounter with his consumed with a longing near son, what responsibility and love mean the same grand gestures and sentimental tricks that, by the early sound era to the standards of the dream factory count. "

" In two key scenes father and son joined with their surrogate robots. The son by he performs dance moves from the fighting, the robot makes exactly the same - Shadow mode is called this way to control it. And the father by fooling the boxing movements in the decisive battle of robots, which he must perform. Clear that he bears also his trauma in this scene. And so you learn in this film: save fathers is great! The oedipal conflicts come soon enough. Blessed is he who has a friendly battle robots as a faithful shadow! "

Trivia

• For the film, four exclusive trailer idea of robots were created, from " Noisy Boy ", " Twin Cities ", " atom" and "Zeus".
• In the film, ProSieben reporter Steven Gätjen has a guest appearance.
• In the film, an exceptional amount of product placement is operated. Among other things, drinking Max only Dr Pepper, many computer products of HP and the arena in which takes place the final, called " bing - Arena ". In this arena will be shown with a special trip the camera's advertising board, (not yet introduced in part ) on the various products and brands can be seen. These include, for example, Sprint Corporation, the Xbox 720, which was considered a potential designation of the successor of the Xbox 360, Mercedes -Benz, Coca Cola, Cadillac, Del Taco and some others.

Financial success

While the film in the United States a rather average start had ( opening weekend: U.S. $ 27.3 million ), he was from a global perspective but still a success. The final box office earnings totaled U.S. $ 295,468,508 and alone which 210 million were U.S. $ recorded. This makes it one of the most successful "Sports " dramas of all time.