Surrogates
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Short description
Surrogates is set in a future where most people rarely leave home, interacting with the world through robotic duplicates that are younger, stronger and better looking than their operators. When users of these surrogates begin dying in a string of killings tied to the technology's origins, FBI agent Tom Greer is forced to venture outside in person for the first time in years to investigate. His inquiry brings him into contact with a movement opposed to the surrogates, and he must work out who can be trusted in a society built on remote-controlled appearances.
Jonathan Mostow directed the film, his fourth feature after Breakdown, U-571 and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. John Brancato and Michael Ferris wrote the screenplay, and Bruce Willis leads the cast as Greer, alongside Radha Mitchell as his FBI colleague Jennifer Peters, Rosamund Pike as his wife Maggie, James Cromwell as Dr. Lionel Canter and Ving Rhames as Prophet. The production had a budget of 80 million USD and returned 122 million USD worldwide, a modest result against its cost.
Audience response was middling. On IMDb the film holds 6.3/10 from around 185,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.2/10 from roughly 3,500 votes. A film critics' rating of 5.4/10 from 116 reviews places it slightly below those audience scores, suggesting a broadly mixed reception on both sides.
What's left behind the scenes
- The majority of the film's scenes were shot in Boston, USA.
- Actor James Cromwell, who played the role of Dr. Canter, previously played the role of a robot creator – in the film “I, Robot” (2004) he played Dr. Alfred Lanning, the lead designer and theorist of U. S. Robotics.
- At the beginning of the film, a clip from a video is shown, demonstrating the testing of a Raytheon Sarcos exoskeleton.
- The film is based on the comics by Top Shelf Productions, "Surrogates" (2005-2006).
- The telepresence technology shown in the film was described as early as 1963 by Stanisław Lem in "Summa Technologiae" under the name of teletaxis (the principle was also explained in some of his science fiction works, for example, the use of teledoubles in "World on Earth").
- Actor Trevor Donovan, who played the “young” Agent Greer, also played a “test” surrogate in a store that Greer visited on Peters’ advice after his official surrogate was destroyed.
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