Real Steel trailer online

Hugh Jackman’s machine smash-up Real Steel has finally gotten a trailer, and it’s just busted online.

A futuristic sports movie, Steel follows Jackman’s washed-up fighter, who’s living in a time when robots are the ones who now get in the ring.

“Times have changed,” rumbles Jackman, “fighting has changed, but the crowd – they never change.” He spies a second chance at the ring in a fixer-upper 'bot that he and his estranged son decide to enter into the championships.

Watch the trailer below…

It’s almost impossible not to watch the footage on display here and not feel that it’s something of a Transformers spin-off, with Autobots and Decepticons now fighting it out in a boxing ring instead of a scenic city.

The CGI is also a little off, with computer generated shots easily distinguishable from those involving real mechanical robots. That could just be early footage, it could not.

Jackman seems to be having a ball, though, which has to count for something, and the fights looks suitably muscular.

Real Steel opens 7 October, 2011.

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.