Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction sports drama film starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo and co-produced and directed by Shawn Levy for DreamWorks Pictures. The film is based on the short story “Steel”, written by Richard Matheson, which was originally published in the May 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and was later adapted into a 1963 Twilight Zone episode. Real Steel was in development for several years before production began on June 24, 2010. Filming took place primarily in the US state of Michigan. Animatronic robots were built for the film and motion capture technology was used to depict the rodeo fight between robots and computer-generated animatronics, respectively.

Real Steel was released by Touchstone Pictures in Australia on October 6, 2011 and in the United States and Canada on October 7, 2011, grossing almost $300 million at the box office. It received mixed reviews, with criticism for the formulaic nature of the plot and the fact that elements were left unresolved or predictable, but also praise for the visual effects, action sequences, and performances.

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards, but lost to Hugo. After the fight, Charlie learns that his ex-girlfriend died and now he must attend a hearing to decide the future of his son, Max, a boxing fanatic robot with whom Charlie has practically had no contact since Max was born. . Max’s maternal aunt, Debra, and her wealthy husband, Marvin, want full custody, which Charlie negotiates for $100,000, half up front, and Marvin negotiates for Charlie to keep Max for three months while Marvin and Debra leave. vacation.

Settling into a gym owned by Bailey Tallet, the daughter of Charlie’s former boxing coach, Charlie acquires the once famous Noisy Boy, but is destroyed in an underground match against another boxing robot, Midas. While Charlie and Max try to collect parts from a junkyard to make a new robot, Max discovers Atom, an obsolete but intact training robot designed to withstand serious damage and that can mirror the opponent’s and trainer’s movements and store them in its memory due to his rare ability. “shadow function”.