Because every fading futuristic robot-boxing trainer needs a sidekick, Hugh Jackman has found a helper in 11-year-old Canadian Dakota Goyo, newly cast as Jackman’s son in the upcoming “Real Steel.”
Goyo, who has appeared in “Resurrecting The Champ” (another boxing movie) as well as the recent under-the-radar release “Defendor” and a handful of Canadian television shows, was selected in an open casting call February amongst many other potential actors. The Shawn Levy (“Night at the Museum”) film will feature Jackman and Goyo as a father-son team training an unusual robot to win a boxing championship after Jackman’s fall from glory as an actual human boxer. A techno-savvy futuristic “Rocky” for the family, perhaps? Sounds mildly retarded? Perhaps, we’ll have to wait and see before we pass total judgement.
Dreamworks’ ‘Steel’ is scheduled to shoot this June with and will go up against “Happy Feet 2” and the next Bond film on November 18, 2011. Tentpoles away!
As I read, it´s not going to be a family movie but a drama, so who knows how this turns out to be. But in the latest wave of remakes or sequels, this at least sounds original. And Hugh Jackman is in it, so I am in 😉
as Jackman isn't reputed by his good taste to choice his movies:i don't care!
pomme – where did you get it? The only bad movie he did lately was Deception and Van Helsing few years ago. You didn´t like Australia or Wolverine? Well…it´s just your problem and so don´t care. I am looking forward to this because I am not going to judge something that doesn´t exist yet and has only synopsis in two sentences.
Firstly, Goyo is only 10 and has a lengthy resume of both Canadian and US productions. He was not chosen through an open casting call. I just read an article which says he is with WME and was submitted for this part through his agents.