Bruce Willis to Join ‘The Surrogates’

Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on November 19, 2007

Bruce “Bad Ass” Willis has quickly recovered from the WGA Strike related death of one of his planned films Pinkville. FilmJunk picked up the story about the new sci-fi actioner based on a 5-issue comic series. The plot follows a pair of detectives on the search for a terrorist who’s set to disrupt the new way of life. This new way of life, however, is not what we’re living right now, let me tell you. In the year 2054, humans live sheltered lives, enclosed in their little hidey-holes and do the bulk of their “living” through “Surrogates,” robotic, perfectionalized versions of themselves that exist in the day to day world.

But when someone sets out to destroy these machines, Bruce must dust off his real shoes and step outside to track him down and stop him. Now, I haven’t read the comic, but I’m sure I can guess how this plays out, but hopefully the ride will be entertaining. It definitely sounds like it has real potential. Bruce Willis. The Future. Robots. That’s a pretty hard equation to screw up, though I would have said the same about Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Die Hard, but they managed to dump that out the wrong hole.

Stay tuned for more news as The Surrogates sets to roll cameras in early 2008. Johnathon Mostow (Terminator 3) is set to direct a Ferris-Brancato script (Terminator 3).

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