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Steven Speilberg Remakes a Twilight Zone classic

Posted on December 9, 2009 By m8trix No Comments on Steven Speilberg Remakes a Twilight Zone classic
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One of the greatest of all time Speilberg along with Stacey Snider and Dreamworks is going to do a full feature film remake of the Twilight Zone classic episode Steel Now called Real Steel. According to Variety he movie will be also staring  Hugh Jackman of Wolverine fame. See article

Hugh Jackman to star in Real Steel

Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider are betting big on robots for their first project since securing $825 million in financing for the reconstituted DreamWorks.

The DreamWorks principals have greenlit the “Rocky”-esque robot tale “Real Steel,” to star Hugh Jackman, as their first pic since raising $650 million from both J.P. Morgan Securities and Reliance Big Pictures and an additional $175 million from Disney, which will distrib DreamWorks titles.

Now does anyone remember the old Zone episode. If you do not here is a reminder and the episode that I found on VEOH

Sports item, circa 1974: Battling Maxo, B2, heavyweight, accompanied by his manager and handler, arrives in Maynard, Kansas, for a scheduled six-round bout. Battling Maxo is a robot, or, to be exact, an android – definition: ‘an automaton resembling a human being.’ Only these automatons have been permitted in the ring since prizefighting was legally abolished in 1968. This is the story of that scheduled six-round bout- more specifically, the story of two men shortly to face that remorseless truth: that no law can be passed which will abolish cruelty or desperate need – nor, for that matter, blind animal courage. Location for the facing of said truth: a small, smoke-filled arena just this side of the Twilight Zone.

That was the opening sequence of the classic Twilight Zone Episode 122 of season 5 called Steel which aired on October 4th 1963. The story revolved around a time in the zone where boxing between humans was outlawed and replaced with rockem sockem robots. Well human replicas that fought for the entertainment of the blood thirsty humans. The synopsis of the story is as follows

Source Wikipedia

In a future where any boxing involving human fighters has been criminalized, the sport is now dominated by fighting robots. Former boxer Steel Kelly manages a B2-model robot called “Battling Maxo.” Maxo is an older fighting robot and we learn that due to his age, he is not in demand. Kelly and his partner have used the last of their money to get to the fight venue. He is being given this chance due to the fact that one of the scheduled fighters was damaged in transport. Kelly has to assure the fight promoter that Maxo will be able to fight. After the fight promoter leaves Kelly and his partner and mechanic, Pole, argue about Maxo’s condition and that he needs new parts. Kelly feels that Maxo should be able to go through with the fight despite Maxo’s age and condition. While Pole tests Maxo’s functions, an arm spring lets go and they don’t have the parts or the money to fix him. Kelly decides that since they are from out of town, he would disguise himself as Maxo in order to collect the money necessary for repairs. Steel enters the fight disguised as Maxo. However, despite a valiant effort, he is unable to damage the B7 robot he is fighting, even when he lands an unblocked punch directly in the back of its head. He is nearly killed after lasting a little under three minutes. The crowd jeers Maxo’s performance, not knowing that it is a human doing the fighting. Afterwards, the fight promoter will only give them half the prize money because of “Maxo’s” poor performance. The episode ends with Kelly, bruised but stubborn as ever, telling Pole that with the money they will get the parts to fix Maxo.

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