Action director Peter Berg, who had been talking with DreamWorks about taking on the studio's futuristic robot boxing movie "
Real Steel," has moved on, opening up the gig to Shawn Levy.
Levy is known for directing and producing broad, hit comedies such as the two "Night at the Museum" movies, which have grossed nearly $1 billion in worldwide boxoffice. But the "Steel" story line takes place in a near future where human boxing has been outlawed, and heavy, humanoid robots slug it out in the ring instead. Into this world step a father and his estranged teenage son, who train an extraordinary fighter.