Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots: The Movie (Unofficially)
September 16, 2009 Comments
Night at the Museums director Shawn Levy has signed on to direct Real Steel, a film--sadly, unassociated with Shaq's Steel--that will make you wonder how no one had yet thought to combine the Terminator and pugilism:
[T]he "Steel" story line takes place in a near future where human boxing has been outlawed, and heavy, humanoid robots slug it out in the ring instead. Into this world step a father and his estranged teenage son, who train an extraordinary fighter.
Wait, so in the future robots have to be trained to fight? What happened to programming them to be natural fighters and then having them flip through a boxing book super-fast like in Short Circuit? That seems like a step backward in boxing robot technology. Unless, à la Rocky IV, maybe evil programming and accelerated book reading is what only the Russian, Aryan boxing robots do.