Surrogates - International Trailer

International trailer for Surrogates is similar to the previous trailer, but is edited with shorter scenes and a few seconds of new footage.
Directed by Jonathan Mostow. Starring Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike

Due out on 25th September 2009

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Surrogates - Trailer for Bruce Willis sci-fi

FBI agents (Bruce Willis and Radha 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. The murder spawns a quest for answers: In a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?

SURROGATES trailer in HD

I was hoping for something a bit special with this film. The plot sounded great and I like Bruce Willis. However, the trailer leaves me feeling disappointed. It looks like a much cheaper of version of I,Robot crossed with Virtuosity and The 13th Floor. Everything appears to be studio back lot and set bound and has a very 80's action movie feel to it.

It is due out on 25th September 2009.

That's just me. How do you feel about Surrogates after seeing the trailer? Has anyone read the comic it's based on?

Source: /Film

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Surrogates - Some on set photos of the Bruce Willis sci-fi film

It has been a while since there was any news on this comic book adaption. However, SciFiCool managed to get hold of some on set photos which I've posted here.

FBI agents (BRUCE WILLIS and RADHA 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. The murder spawns a quest for answers: in a world of masks, who’s real and who can you trust?

I'm assuming that the blonde woman on the wires is one of the Surrogates and that she is doing some super-duper robot style running and/or jumping.
Surrogates stars Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Francis Ginty, Boris Kodjoe and Ving Rhames. Jonathan Mostow (”Terminator: Rise of the Machines”) directs.
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The Crazies - What will they look like? Eisner spills his guts

Recently a selection of film press people were invited to the Georgia set of The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 original by George Romero.

As I've mentioned previously Breck Eisner (Sahara) directs from a script by Ray Wright (Pulse) and Scott Kosar (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2003). A chemical weapon has invaded the water supply of the small rural Iowa town of Ogden Marsh and it is turning infected into raving lunatics. While the original offered a heavy dose of military perspective, the remake presents the military as more of an ominous presence tasked with correcting the problem and also covering it up along the way. Kind of like the way the military were portrayed in the original Half-Life.

Timothy Olyphant stars as Sheriff David Dutton; Radha Mitchell is his pregnant wife, Dr. Judy Dutton; Joe Anderson is Deputy Russell Clank and Danielle Panabaker is the hospital receptionist, Becca.

“In this scene we’re lining up, basically heading to the concentration camp and we don’t know what’s going to happen to us,” says Radha Mitchell. “I don’t think the government officials know exactly how they are going to deal with us either. They are measuring everyone’s temperature to see who’s got an elevated temperature. And the people that appear to be sick are being pushed in one direction and the other people are being pushed in the other direction.”

“[My character] has an elevated temperature because she’s pregnant, but of course they don’t believe that or they don’t care. So she’s going in one direction and he’s going in the other and its hopefully going to be quite dramatic.”

Breck Eisner really likes the filming in the wide open spaces of Georgia “I really wanted the wide open plains,” says Eisner. “What worked nicely here is we could have that same scope. I wanted this idea that our heroes are not trapped in small boxes, but open spaces that go on for miles and miles and miles. There’s literally nowhere to hide.”

To design the Crazies, Eisner and makeup designer Rob Hall went to great lengths to differentiate the look from classic zombies. “The challenge for us was making them look interesting and iconic but not like zombies,” says Eisner. “We didn’t want them to be so far over the top that you don’t believe that it could be a sickness that made this happen.”

To do this, Eisner and Hall referenced actual diseases such as Tetanus, Ebola and Rabies.

“They are really horrific looking,” says Olyphant. “They are strained looking. Their bodies are kind of arched and their veins are popping out and their blood vessels are popping. Their eyes are kind of blood [shot].”

“They're almost like they're the opposite of dead,” adds Hall. “There's too much life in them so they're like bursting at the seams. Their faces are red and there are blood blisters and veins and they're very vascular."

“There are five stages of The Crazies,” Eisner explains. “The first is before anything happens, the fifth is when you’re dead. The second stage is a performance-based craziness which is somebody you know acting differently but not looking differently at all. The next two stages are various levels of physical differences.”

But the director was careful not to turn The Crazies into a military action chase movie. “When I came on the movie, I wanted to get rid of the point of view of the military,” says Eisner. “Any time you [have that], it goes away from horror and it goes to action, Bourne Identity kind of action. To me it was much more interesting being in the point-of-view of our townsfolk and with this oppressive, nameless, faceless force of the military and the bio-containment suits wandering around.”

“[I wanted to] put them through the terror [along with] the other infected Crazies that are roaming the town. It’s horrific and graphic, but I wanted a real quality to it. We’re not shying away from blood.”

The Crazies opens 25th September 2009 and I cannot wait. Sounds like it should be quite an intense film.

Source: Dark Horizons

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The Crazies - First look at Timothy Olyphant

Bloody Disgusting debuted this new photo as well as a set visit report for The Crazies.

Looks like Timmy boy has got himself into some trouble

As well as Olyphant, The Crazies stars Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson, Joe Reegan, and a whole town full of crazy Kansas locals. The story revolves around the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply. This is a remake of George Romero's 1973 film The Crazies and is being directed by Breck Eisner.

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Panabaker is one of The Crazies

Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th, Mr Brooks, Sky High, Shark) and Joe Anderson (Across the Universe, The Ruins) have joined Timothy Olyphant (TV's "Damages," Hitman, Deadwood) and Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill, Pitch Black) in Overture Films' The Crazies, a reinvention loosely based upon the George Romero cult classic. The film is set to begin principal photography in Georgia on March 5th with additional shooting to occur in Iowa.

Panabaker will play Becca, a receptionist at the town's medical center where Mitchell is a doctor.

Anderson will play the role of the town's deputy, with Olyphant playing the sheriff.

Breck Eisner is set to direct the screenplay about the inhabitants of a small Kansas town beset by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. The film is written by Ray Wright, from an earlier draft by Scott Kosar.

Source: Mania

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The Crazies - Cool teaser poster for remake of Romero's film

Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell star in the remake that is being directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara). It is all about about the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

I really like the look of the poster. Spooky looking gas mask / skull. Red for danger and strange figures. Cool.

What do you make of the poster?

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The Code - Poster and trailer for Morgan Freeman's heist film

The Code aka Thick as Thieves is a heist movie about jewel thieves starring Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, and Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black, Silent Hill, Surrogates). It is directed by Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker, Deep Impact, and Pay It Forward)

Freeman plays a veteran thief who recruits a young crook (Banderas) to help him pull off one final job to steal three Faberge Eggs in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob.

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