Entry tags:

movies, robots

Surrogates
Enough people have been bringing up this to me, I suppose I should probably get around to posting about it. ;-)

Surrogates is an upcoming film starring Bruce Willis, based on a graphic novel that I haven't read. The basic premise is that there's this technology that allows people to insert their consciousness into a perfect android body while their real body is asleep (sort of like this RP). Making it kind of like a middle step between SecondLife and Virtual Reality.

From the sounds of it, I guess it's discovered that if a person's surrogate is destroyed, the human also dies. Making their system, I guess, The Matrix 1.0?

They've recently released an interesting-looking series of posters:

I know there are a few of you reading this right now who are thinking "wait, those look kind of familiar. Isn't this ripping off that Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles poster?"



I think it's understandable why you might think this, especially because of the similar-looking blocky font. But, no. In actuality, the poster is ripping of an entirely different photo-manip done by someone online:



Note how the model's hand in the Surrogates image is even positioned to look like she could be similarly pulling up a bunch of skin, but instead is just pulling at air.

What's even funnier is that the aforementioned T:SCC image is likewise ripped off from a photo-manip that was posted online:



It even uses the exact same body, with Summer Glau's head and hair Photoshopped in. There's the possibility that the artist who created the original also created the revised version, but I haven't been able to find any definitive info anywhere. It's too bad movie poster artists are never credited anywhere.