Karl Yune enters the ring for robot-boxing flick Real Steel

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Karl Yune, whom you may have seen in flicks like ANACONDAS: HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID and MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, has joined the futuristic boxing flick REAL STEEL which stars Hugh Jackman as a boxing promoter for robots. According to Variety, Yune will play the role of Tak Mashido, a robot boxer designer.

I still can’t tell if this sounds cool or not. I know it’s based on a Richard Matheson story, but I’ve read that short story (and of course seen the “Twilight Zone” episode inspired by it) and after the very basic premise of a down on his luck ex-boxer trying to set up fights for his broken-down automaton, there’s nothing else to indicate that the film version will resemble the original tale. Indeed, how could it, it’s about ten pages long? (This is a similar situation to what happened with THE BOX, also “based” on a Matheson story.)

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