Here is a “Science Fact” Behind-the-Scenes Featurette from Touchstone Pictures’ SURROGATES.
Director Jonathan Mostow, along with experts in the areas of engineering, robotics and cybernetics, explain how the themes of surrogacy depicted in the film might be a reality in the very near future.
Surrogates hits theaters September 25, 2009
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People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates—sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It’s an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don’t exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (BRUCE WILLIS) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.