Combining science fiction and sports, 2011's "Iron Fist" is eye-catching, in which you can see both the sparks of robot battles, but also the inspirational story and moving emotions, although shortly after the launch of "Iron Fist" there are plans to create a sequel, but 10 years later, "Iron Fist 2" has not been launched, but now, we have ushered in the news of another movie very similar to "Iron Fist" - "Battle Robot Arena".
According to the latest foreign media reports, van Diesel, the male protagonist of the "Rapid Shock" series, will unite Universal Pictures and Mattel Pictures to create a live-action movie based on the robot battle theme desktop toy "Rock'em Sock'em Robots"), and Van Diesel will serve as the producer and star. Van Diesel said in his latest statement that it is very exciting to adapt the classic "Battle Robot Arena" and work with Mattel, like other successful series with Universal before, to create this theme.
Rock'em Sock'em Robots was originally born in 1964 as a tabletop battle toy controlled by two people through a joystick, a square box is an "arena", the player uses two sticks to control the left and right hands of a red and a blue robot to punch, and then if one side is strong enough, the other side's hit head will bounce up to determine the winner. This toy has been sought after by a certain number of people, becoming an alternative classic toy, often recalled by many people, such as "The Big Bang Theory" Xie Er wore a T-shirt painted with red and blue robots fighting. One of the inspirations for "Iron Fist" is actually this toy.
The official synopsis of The Battle Robot Arena is this — a father and son who have an extraordinary relationship with a war machine.
Obviously, in this introduction, the most critical place is the "war machine", so the robot in the film should come to the military and be "picked up" by a father and son for some reason. The story pattern is very similar to another robot-themed classic "starring" van Diesel, the 1999 animated film "The Iron Giant", in which the steel robot is actually voiced by Van Diesel.
The Iron Giant in Ready Player One:
Like robots vs. monsters, everyone also loves the theme of robots vs. robots, "Pacific Rim 2" is mediocre overall, but the scene of the two major mechs fighting is still quite wonderful,
And the "ancestor" of "Pacific Rim" - 1990's "Mechanical Veyron" has also been set by various countries to solve disputes through giant robot battles, whether it is "Gundam", "Transformers", or "Terminator", and "Iron Fist", its theme is the same as the former "Battle Robot Arena" toys, and the visual stimulation brought by the collision between steel and iron bones is always so fascinating, it carries a scientific outlook, but also with a primitive temperament.
Van Diesel is currently actively promoting Fast & Furious 9, which was recently officially scheduled for release on May 21 in mainland China, more than a month before North America. And he has a lot of projects in his hands, in addition to "Super 10" and "Super 11", as well as "Blood Warrior 2", "Extreme Agent 4" and so on, I hope that this "Battle Robot Arena" can become a pioneer project and be launched as soon as possible.