The idea of putting Hugh Jackman in a role featuring enormous battling robots  is an idea that makes me question if my medication is sufficiently strong, but then I read about it in a few movie websites–including right here–and suddenly things start to make sense.

But it’s true–the movie’s called Real Steel, and it assumes a future in which boxing is declared illegal as it’s too dangerous.  Thus, it’s replaced by letting one-ton fighting robots take over.  Jackman will discover a model previously thought obsolete that has the strangest habit of actually winning.

It’s kind of an awesome thought, with Jackman playing the Doc Lewis to the robot’s Little Mac, even if it’s got that vaguely familiar / derivative feeling to it  thanks to previous attempts at making a Robot Fight Club like Rock ‘em Sock’em Robots, the old Virtual Boy game Teleroboxer, or even the really apt description of a weird hybrid of Rocky meets Robot Jox

I’ll admit though, this has the great potential to be a charming, hilarious and action-packed title when and if they finally figure out just what all they’re going to do with it.  They won’t even start filming this until at least summer 2010, so forget about catching this one before 2011.