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"Surrogates" trailer (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike)

I never heard of this before seeing the trailer either, but it looks pretty cool. Possibly theater worthy!
 
"Surrogates" One-sheet and synopsis

I haven't watched the trailer yet.
If you don't want to either but want to know a little about the film Surrogates (2009) see this poster & write up.
Surrogates, hitting theaters on September 25. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, the sci-fi thriller stars Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames.

In the film, FBI agents (Willis and Mitchell) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves—fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles—enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes.
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Onesheet poster:
http://comingsoon.net/nextraimages/surrogatesexclusivetease.jpg
Source: Touchstone Pictures
July 2, 2009
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56827
 
Seems like there is an over abundance of futuristic 'VR' movies coming out this year, between this movie and Gerard Butler's 'Gamer', where prison inmates are directly controlled in combat by gamers, where the inmates can earn their freedom if they survive enough matches.

Plus, then there's James Cameron's 'Avatar', where the main character controls a kind of surrogate, at least for part of the movie from what it seems.
 
Daneel said:
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I agree that the preview does seem to give too much away,
like the fact that one of the main plot developments in the film, which presumably happens towards the end, involves the shutting down of all the surrogates.
But perhaps there's more to it than there appears. We shall have to wait and see...
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Yeah, if that wasn't the closing line in the movie, I'll be surprised.

But, you know, it's no surprise that you're interested in seeing the film AND willing to wait, Daneel. ;)
 
Looks very interesting.. I have no backstory so far though,, so i have to look into that.
 
Snaploud said:
Mistral said:
It sounds like a knock-off of an Isaac Asimov novel.......
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Isaac Asimov on the topic of plagiarism:

As a matter of fact, we authors in SF are more or less friends; we inhabit a small, specialized world in which we are comfortable, and the general feeling is that ideas are common property: if one SF writer thinks up something which is very useful, another may put it into his own words and use it freely. Nobody in SF is going to accuse any other person in SF of using his ideas; in fact, we borrow so generously that there's no way of telling whose idea it was originally. For instance, in my novel The Caves Of Steel, it was very important to the plot to have moving sidewalks, with an elaborate system of side strips that enabled you to work up to the speed of the sidewalks or to work down to the surrounding, motionless medium. This had already appeared some years before in Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll." Well, I borrowed it without any worry at all. I'm sure that Heinlein in reading my novel would have recognized his system, but who knows where he got it from? He never said anything. It'd be different if I used the details of his plot and worked up a story that was so like his that nobody could fail to see it - that's plagiarism. But just to use the idea and build your own plot or story about it - why, we do that all the time. And they do it from me, too - you know, they use the three laws of robotics - and they're welcome. I have no objection.

http://books.google.com/books?id=04...off"+OR+rip-off&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1#PPA23,M1
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Christ, he sounds like Jerry Goldsmith saying how pleased and honored he was when James Horner made his whole career by ripping him off time and again and again.

I'm pretty interested in the film now. I talked to the author of the graphic novel last week, and am interviewing Mostow on Saturday. The writer was a straightforward and honest guy; when I mentioned it was the 100th anniversary of Forster's THE MACHINE STOPS this year, and how that might tie into THE SURROGATES, he was silent for awhile and then admitted he wasn't familiar with the work. THAT was refreshing as all Hell to me, and it also makes me feel that web claims suggesting he pinched his story from one of the R Daneel novels or a recent Brin to be groundless.
 
blockaderunner said:
That Trailer pretty much showed the main plot points in the movie. Thanks for saving me $10 for a better promoted movie.
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You know this how? For all you know, every "plot point" that happens in this trailer happens in the first 30 minutes of the film.

Most people live in isolation and experience daily life via artificial surrogates. The surrogates that are normally able to be destroyed without their owners feeling any ill-effects. This has changed, why don't know why. At some point they all get shut down. We don't know why or when or what happens next. A helicopter blows up, there's some running around, something to do with his wife. Yup, they might as well have sent the script to my inbox. :rolleyes:
 
I just finished the trade paperback--I liked it, not enough to have bought it, but it was a nice read.

I liked the noir art style with the washed out backgrounds and sketchy sort of character renderings. Loved the different hues for different places. It was very visually moody. Story was pretty okay, nothing spectacular--although I did like the ending for the protagonist a lot.

From what I saw of the trailer, which enticed me to borrow the trade, I'm not sure the movie is going to do it for me. Might give it a shot once reviews come in though.
 
Looks good to me - as I live around the corner from a cinema and have an Unlimited card will doubtless make a point to see this!
 
They're advertising it heavily on some of our freeview channels now. Bruce Willis looks very McLane in it.
 
I read both The Surrogates and its sequel, The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone. I can already tell just by the trailers that atmospherically the film adaptation will be much different tonally. As mentioned before, the graphic novels had a neo-noir vibe, with washed out, muted colors and an almost Minority Report aesthetic, albeit much more colorful (certain scenes would be draped in basic color textures like yellow or gray or black -- very interesting). Kind of disappointing, really.
 
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