We recently brought you the news that Kevin Durand (Legion) was cast in the Shawn Levy -directed Real Steel starring Hugh Jackman. Now, Evangeline Lilly (Lost, The Hurt Locker) and one of her Hurt Locker co-stars, actor Anthony Mackie (The Adjustment Bureau) have also joined the cast of Real Steel.
Variety reports that Lilly will play a friend of Jackman and Mackie will portray another boxing promoter.
Real Steel is set in a future in which robots fight in the boxing ring. Jackman plays a former boxer-turned-manager who reunites with his estranged son (Dakota Goyo) to take his fighter to the championships.
Real Steel is slated to hit theaters on November 18th, 2011.