Wolverine star Hugh Jackman is joining forces with Steven Spielberg for a blockbuster described as Rocky with robots.

The Australian actor has been signed up by the director’s DreamWorks studio for Real Steel, its first big film since new funding brought it back to life after financial problems last year.

Directed by Shawn Levy, of Night at the Museum, the picture will see Jackman as a former boxer reinventing himself as the promoter for a fighting robot in a future where machines take over from humans in the ring.

It is a recurring theme for Spielberg, who has explored the subject of technology taking over from humans in the likes of Minority Report and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.

According to Variety, the ‘Rocky-esque’ film has been described by Levy as a “rousing sports movie” with Jackman’s character “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”.

Jackman will reportedly play a struggling robot boxing promoter who finds a discarded robot that always seems to win.

He also discovers he has a 11-year-old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top.

Production on the film, which is based on a short story, is set to start in June.

No new premiere dates have been released by Twentieth Century Fox so far but the studio said they are putting on hold all plans in the area due to the seriousness of the virus. The producers said they are considering not only Hugh Jackman’s health–who is the only “Wolverine’ star scheduled to appear in Mexico for the premiere—but also the well-being of several other people under their employ. There is a however a possibility that the event will be rescheduled.

The Motion Picture Association of America and the FBI are already investigating the online leak of the film. Sexiest Man Alive Hugh Jackman was in Sydney, Australia recently to unveil a portion of the completed footage of the film. Hugh Jackman is however confident that fans will still flock to the theaters to watch the movie despite the online leak. Hugh Jackman said it is very disappointing because people are seeing an unfinished film.

All of the 3 actors will front a campaign that will soon be televised across all channels in Australia wherein they make an appeal to people to donate generously for those who have been affected by the bushfire. Other stars like Keith Urban, Orlando Bloom too have agreed to take part and do their bit for the victims, all proceeds from donations received will go to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal.

Yes that’s the least the stars can do to help the victims, it’s really awful that people have had to lose their homes because of these bushfires and I read somewhere that 2 people were being investigated for possible involvement in setting off these bushfire.

What a catastrophe if this is indeed true, some physicopath just blew up killing innocent people.

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