Tim Johnson
Actor Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy have tapped 11-year-old Dakota Goyo to play the Australian performer’s on-screen son in DreamWorks’ “Real Steel”, says Risky Business.
The studio conducted a nation wide search for a young actor to play the role. According to the casting breakdown, they were looking for a “street-smart, tough, charming kid with a hard, untrusting outer shell which hides a warm enthusiastic spirit beneath.”
“Real Steel”, based on a short story by Richard Matheson, centers on a fighter who has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by robots. Jackman will play a struggling Robot Boxing promoter who finds a discarded robot that always seems to win. He also discovers he has a 11-year-old son, and they bond as the robot brawls its way toward the top.
Seems they found him in Canada, where Goyo resides. The young actor has also appeared in another boxing drama, “Resurrecting the Champ”, opposite Samuel L.Jackson and Josh Hartnett.
The 2011 release begins filming in June.
