The cast for Bruce Willis’ sci-fi thriller, The Surrogates, is shaping up quite nicely (although if you ask us, it was doing ok when it merely had Bruce in it).
Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell and our very own Rosamund Pike have all signed on to join the Jonathan Mostow flick, which starts filming in Boston later this month, and which is set in a futuristic world where humans live their lives through surrogate robots who are better-looking versions of themselves.
Mitchell will play the partner of Willis’ character, who’s a cop investigating the murder of surrogates through his own surrogate. Pike will play Willis’ wife (bit of an age gap, there – we wonder if they might explain that away through the use of the eternally youthful Surrogates), while Rhames will play a charismatic cult leader (why are all cult leaders in movies charismatic?) who opposes surrogates and attempts to lead an uprising.
It’s an intriguing premise that we can’t quite get our heads around cinematically just yet, but we’re sure that Mostow will make it work, if he brings his Breakdown form to the set with him.