{"id":968,"date":"2009-06-19T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/06\/19\/surrogates-timeline\/"},"modified":"2009-06-19T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T07:28:00","slug":"surrogates-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/06\/19\/surrogates-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogates Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

“From the time I started writing the first script until the time the last issue hit the stands, The Surrogates<\/span> was nearly four years in the making.”
– Robert Venditti, “Script to Page,” The Surrogates<\/span> TPB<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

May, 2002: Robert Venditti begins work on The Surrogates<\/span> graphic novel (per CBR interview<\/a>)<\/p>\n

July, 2005: Top Shelf begins publishing The Surrogates<\/span> as a 5-issue, bi-monthly limited series, illustrated by Brett Weldele.<\/p>\n

March, 2007: Disney options film rights for The Surrogates<\/span> (per Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

November, 2007: Bruce Willis cast in lead role of Harvey Greer.<\/p>\n

April, 2008: Principal photography on Surrogates<\/span> begins in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

July, 2009: Graphic novel prequel The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone<\/span><\/a> scheduled for publication.<\/p>\n

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September, 2009: Surrogates<\/span> film scheduled for release.<\/p>\n

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The movie has changed a few things, of course; Greer is now an FBI agent, not a police detective in “Central Georgia Metropolis,” and apparently the villain is actually killing people, not just destroying their robotic surrogates. I guess that’s to “raise the stakes.” I don’t expect much from the director of Terminator 3<\/span><\/a>, but hey, it can’t be much worse than I, Robot<\/span><\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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