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Steel (film)

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Steel
Original one-sheet film poster.
Directed by	Kenneth Johnson
Produced by	Quincy Jones David Salzman Joel Simon
Written by	Louise Simonson (comic) Jon Bogdanove (comic) Kenneth Johnson
Starring	Shaquille O'Neal Annabeth Gish Judd Nelson Richard Roundtree Ray J
Music by	Mervyn Warren
Cinematography	Mark Irwin
Editing by	John F. Link
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	August 15, 1997
Running time	97 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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Steel is the name of a 1997 movie starring basketball star Shaquille O'Neal and future X-Files star Annabeth Gish. It is a superhero action-adventure film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The movie (released on August 15) was considered a huge disappointment both critically and financially. Steel was produced for an estimated $16,000,000 but grossed only $1,686,429 at the box office.

Plot

John Henry Irons is a weapons designer for the United States military. When his project to create weapons that harmlessly neutralize soldiers is eradicated, he resigns in disgust. When he sees criminal gangs are using the weapons that he helped manufacture on the street, he uses his resources and his Uncle Joe's equipment in his junkyard to fight back against the man who's been selling them to those gangs: Nathaniel Burke. In order to do so, he uses the resources that are available to him to forge himself a suit of armor and the weaponry necessary to carry out his war on crime.

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Single films	Superman and the Mole Men (1951) • Batman (1966) • Supergirl (1984) • Steel (1997) • Road to Perdition (2002) • Catwoman (2004) • A History of Violence (2005) • Constantine (2005) • V for Vendetta (2006) • Watchmen (2009)
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