Real Steel: Directed by Shawn Levy. With Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie. In a near future where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.

Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a retired boxer, but he has a new sport of choice: robot boxing. He tours the small circuit looking for fights in an attempt to break into the big time.

Set in the near future where instead of human boxing, we get 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall robot mashers – Hugh Jackman plays Charlie Kenton, a washed up former boxer who is forced into retirement when human boxing is outlawed and becomes a small time promoter/trainer to the robots taking over the sport.

A future-set story where robot boxing is a top sport and centered on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.

Real Steel (2011) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

We open to Charlie (Hugh Jackman) driving through the country, pulling up a trailer to a county fair. He's scheduled to fight his old robot, Ambush, against an 800 pound bull.

In a near future where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot. Director Shawn Levy Stars Hugh Jackman Evangeline Lilly Dakota Goyo

In 2011, the actor starred in the cult-classic film, Real Steel, alongside the legendary Hugh Jackman. Although the film did not break records, it has always had a very loyal fanbase that appreciates the uniqueness of its concept. Hugh Jackman in a still from Real Steel I Credit: Paramount Pictures

Jackman plays a hot German male model (who's stayed with Donatella for eight months), and Mick Jagger does an expert Karl Lagerfeld. Lastly, Hugh Jackman recalls his Christmases in Australia, where a boxing kangaroo would visit each year.

Max Kenton : His name is Atom. Can we get him a fight? Charlie Kenton : I don't think he was ever a boxing robot. Bailey Tallet : He's a G2, built in early 2014. He's a sparring bot. Charlie Kenton : They must have built robots like this one that could mirror the fighting style of any other robot. Max Kenton : Okay, so can we get him a fight?