SurrogatesFROM MTV MOVIES: In "Surrogates," nobody goes to work anymore, or even leaves the house much. Instead, lifelike robo-mannequins are dispatched to undertake the day's business while their operators sit at home with headsets and watch. These surrogates tend toward whitebread perfection — blonder of hair, bluer of eye and hotter of bod than their owners — but they can also be purchased in any race or gender desired. Imagine the benefits.

Cops and combat soldiers no longer need risk their real lives. Communicable diseases fade away, along with various sorts of prejudice. (That hot number your surry just picked up in a club might actually be some leering lardo sprawled at home on his living-room sofa.) Life — or at least "life" — is good.

The movie makes significant alterations (mainly of gender and motivation) in the Robert Venditti comic books on which it's based; but these changes, for a change, actually enhance the story.

Continue reading Kurt Loder's review of "Surrogates" at Movies.MTV.com.

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Iron Man 2With principal photography finished on "Iron Man 2" and the movie's May 2010 release date not too far off, fans have waited with bated breath for official footage from the upcoming Marvel film. Luckily, there's plenty of that on the Internet today.

Entertainment Tonight debuted footage from their set visit to the "Iron Man" sequel, unveiling several new details about the film's key characters and the much discussed Monaco Grand Prix action sequence.

"Tony Stark has come to Monaco supposedly to observe the race, but then as it happens, he's racing in it," Robert Downey Jr. described of the massive scene. "This is where he meets his nemesis [Whiplash] and this big kind of action sequence unfolds on the track." Read More...

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SurrogatesBy my count, Bruce Willis has taken on some sort of law-enforcing, crime-solving, humanity-protecting, uniform-wearing big-screen role 18 times in his career. You might say the guy has something of a cinematic Messiah complex.

Today, the sci-fi graphic novel adaptation "Surrogates"—in which Willis plays an FBI agent in a world where humans uses robotic doppelgangers in everyday life while they chill in the safety of their homes—brings the actor's total to 19 and climbing. Here are some of our favorites.

John McClane (the "Die Hard" films): Any conversation about Bruce Willis and cops must begin with McClane, whose foul-mouthed catchphrases have entered the pop culture lexicon and whose barefoot-on-broken-glass disregard for his own well-being continues to set the bar high for adrenaline-raising action flicks. Heck, it was enough to earn McClane a Greatest Movie Badasses Of All Time" nod. Read More...

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Superman/BatmanDon't ever let anyone tell you that being Batman is easy. According to voice actor Kevin Conroy—who lends his vocal talents to the Dark Knight in the upcoming "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies" animated feature, in addition to having played the role in other incarnations for nearly two decades—providing the right voice for Bruce Wayne's masked alter-ego is always a challenge, no matter how often he's played the role.

"For Batman, I think the biggest challenge is the timber of the voice that I established early on," Conroy said while promoting the upcoming animated film. "I just kind of improvised it and it stuck. It's very deep in my register—very throaty—and whenever it gets emotional, it's a difficult sound to create with a lot of volume technically without blowing your chords out." Read More...

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Captain AmericaGiven the hotbed of conversation in our poll of the week, it only makes sense that Steve Rogers is the subject of today's Secret Identity casting call.

Captain America is undoubtedly one of Marvel's highest profile superheroes, and with his very own movie on the way, it's well worth wondering who could sling that mighty shield.

In terms of practicalities, Cap's biggest problem lies in his origin story: scrawny Steve Rogers volunteers to test the super soldier serum, thereby becoming the red, white and blue hero he's known for today. Outside of Christian Bale, I can't think of many actors that could leap from a rail thin frame to the muscular build required of Captain America -- so instead, I'll focus on the post-serum Cap. With that stipulation, here are five actors with what it takes to bring Marvel's most patriotic superhero to the big screen. Read More...

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FlashForwardFROM MOVIES BLOG: In case you missed it, we started doing a little bit of TV coverage here on MTV Movies Blog last week. With the second season of J.J. Abrams' "Fringe" in full swing, MTV contributor Josh Wigler will be providing weekly recaps and opinions on the night's episode.

There's more to come though. Tonight marks the start of a brand new series on ABC, "FlashForward," which is loosely adapted from the Prix Aurora Award-winning sci-fi novel "Flashforward" by Robert J. Sawyer. "Star Trek: The Next Generation" writer Brannon Braga and "Batman Begins"/"The Dark Knight" writer David Goyer are the showrunners, and the duo took time out of their busy San Diego Comic-Con schedule in July to chat with MTV Splash Page editor Rick Marshall.

For the rest of our "FlashForward" interview with David Goyer and Brannon Braga, head over to MoviesBlog.MTV.com.

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Mal ChancePlatinum Studios certainly has its hands full -- in addition to the Robert Downey Jr.-starring, Jon Favreau-directed "Cowboys and Aliens" adaptation and the Brandon Routh-headlining "Dead of Night," Platinum is planning on bringing yet another comic book franchise to life.

Variety reports that "Mal Chance" is developing in conjunction with Platinum Studios CEO Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and producer Tony Krantz, best known for his work on "24" and "Mulholland Drive." Scott Murphy will adapt "Mal Chance" for the big screen. Read More...

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Actor Elias Koteas might be best-known to Splash Page readers for his role as Casey Jones in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movies, but when we were getting ready to speak to him about his upcoming film "Defendor" with Woody Harrelson, we noticed an interesting entry in his online resume. According to Wikipedia (not the most reliable source of information, we know), Koteas has a role in the live-action "Green Lantern" movie scheduled for release in 2011.

According to Koteas, the "Green Lantern" role is news to him.



"Am I in the movie?" asked Koteas when MTV Movies Editor Joshua Horowitz brought up the project's presence on his wiki-based resume. Read More...

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FROM MTV.COM: It's already been a smash comic book, and we've been following its development into a movie for quite some time. Now, the Bruce Willis sci-fi flick "Surrogates" is finally hitting theaters this weekend, fueled by one very provocative question: If you had a robot doppelgänger to live life for you, what would you do with it?



"My surrogate would be fighting fires and saving the world," said Radha Mitchell, one of the stars of the film. "The surrogate could also be doing all that menial stuff. My surrogate would be doing everything. I could just relax and get a massage instead."

"I'd send him down to Washington, tell him to fire all the politicians and start looking for that $780 billion they can't seem to find," grinned Willis, who plays the futuristic cop investigating a series of murders in a world where people stay indoors, resting while their robots do all the living for them. "It'd be a good day."

For more on what the "Surrogates" cast would do with their robotic stand-ins, head over to Movies.MTV.com.

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Twitter - SpawnTodd McFarlane must have the best portfolio of straight-to-Twitter artwork in comics now. Every time he posts something, like Spawn artwork below, he begs the question about why he rarely does comic art anymore. Old school Spawn fans should come on and get happy, though, because he says this page is actually for an upcoming Spawn comic.

As all of you who follow the Twitter Report know, Jock and Andy Diggle just left New York and are now visiting the "Losers" set in Puerto Rico. The Twitter Report wishes Jock feliz cumpleaños today (even if he isn't turning 65, as Diggle suggests). Links and posts of what they've been doing with their time can be found below, along with responses from Erik Larsen and Rob Liefeld to a recent Alan Moore interview and some rad Chuck BB fan artwork for Jack Black's new video game "Brutal Legend."

I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for September 24, 2009. Read More...

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Splash Page welcomes Ed Tadem to our cover artist family (our custom-designed theme up top). Currently working on the forthcoming "Avengers" animated series, Tadem's work can also be seen in the "Jackie Karma" issues of Image's "'76," and in "Pop Gun, Volume 1." Ed Tadem can be found online at EdTadem.com.
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