Radha Mitchell Joins Bruce Willis in 'The Surrogates'
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Casting, Disney
According to Coming Soon, Radha Mitchell has joined the cast of Jonathan Mostow's sci-fi thriller, The Surrogates. The movie is based on the graphic novel from Robert Venditti and was adapted by the screenwriting duo of Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato. The bad news is that these guys have written some pretty crappy movies in the past. Hopefully, these two are better at adaptations than they are at original ideas.In The Surrogates, Bruce Willis stars as a cop in a futuristic world where all human interaction is performed by look-alike robots called Surrogates. Not only do the robots do all the talking for us, but they're even better looking too (when it comes to Mitchell, though, the original is none too shabby ... so I can't imagine what they would do to make her even better looking). When someone begins murdering 'surrogates' right and left, Willis is forced to venture into the outside world for the first time to track down the killer.
Whenever I think of Mitchell, I always think how she seems to have the knack for being a bright spot in an otherwise so-so movie. Case in point: Pitch Black. Plus, I think she was one of the few actors in Melinda and Melinda who was able to handle Woody Allen's dialog (all while doing a mean impersonation of Diane Weist in Hannah and Her Sisters). Mitchell is already busy with two other films in stages of production (Henry Poole Is Here and The Code), so we will have to wait for the official word that Mitchell has signed on the dotted line. The Surrogates is set to arrive in theaters on 20 November 2009.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
3-30-2008 @ 5:06PM
AJ Wiley said...
I genuinely enjoyed Pitch Black, and especially Melinda and Melinda.
I wonder if this says something about me...
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3-30-2008 @ 6:58PM
Randall said...
Does anyone else think like this is going to be a terrible Bladerunner-meets-typical murder mystery movie?
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3-31-2008 @ 3:48AM
Joel M. said...
@Randall...
No way! The graphic novel is great. It does have a Blade Runner feel, but the premise of The Surrogates is ten times more compelling. This movie will be good unless the studio goes out of its way to f it up.
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