Okay, the Bruce avatar is creepier than a nun on mescaline shagging a one legged clown.
It will haunt my dreams and wait, giggling in the dark recesses of my mind...FOREVER.

(seriously, though, sounds like a neat premise.)

This sounds like a re-working of Asimov's "Spacers," who live in widely separated compounds on planets and do not interact physically, but by hologram, and are dependent on their robots for their care. So now, these people are the robots. Could be interesting if it's done right.

He!,..I have read a book with that argument!, but was not terrorist (or it was?) but religio, I think. And people has teleportation, so one guy started teleporting here and there, naked, ...

@Miranda Kali: So you think it's kinda hot?

Seems like they got his face right, but the head is all teeny-tiny in the wrong places.

I like this idea for a movie. Kind of Matrix meets I, Robot (the movie).

(Actually, now that I think of it, that was probably the pitch: "Picture this - Bruce Willis, the Matrix, and I, Robot, is that something you might be interested in?")

@NefariousNewt: Not all the Spacers did that, only the Solarians. Then they died out... Maybe.

Definitely sounds pretty good, similar to 13 Monkeys almost..

Has the T3 director done anything else? Not the best street cred for sci-fi direction...

@92BuickLeSabre:
Shoggoth wish they looked that good. It's the face that launched a thousand rotting vessels, filled with pustulant, screaming monkeys.

@Miranda Kali: Is it the clown being shagged by the nun, or the other way around?

@Miranda Kali: Okay, now you're getting me hot.

Funny. I never realized Bruce Willis looks like that before now.

@KiddChaos: Does it matter? Totally hot either way.

@Log1c: The T3 director also did "Beverly Hills Body Snatchers" but I decided not to mention it lest I shred his credibility too much...

@92BuickLeSabre:
What? Without the poodle and Spam? Uhhhg! Now that's sick.

I like this premise a lot. I especially like that Willis' character will have to learn to understand the "techno-terrorist"'s world view in order to stop him.

And Bruce Willis can be pretty damn good if he has good material to work with. Done right, this could be a really great movie.

@Miranda Kali: You're creating unnecessary prep time for yourself Miranda. Next time just use the Spoodlam (Poodle Spam). Kill two birds with one stone.

(Not to be confused with the part where you actually do kill two birds with one stone.)

I like this premise a lot. I especially like that the cop will be forced to sympathize with the "techno-terrorist" as he's working to stop him. (Yes, it's an old and predictable plot structure, but in this setting it'll have some great twists.)

And Bruce Willis can be pretty damn good, if he has good material to work with. Done right, this could be a really great movie.

@92BuickLeSabre:
Spoodlam! Of course! Thank you. I'd completely forgotten. Saves sooo much time...AND eliminates the need for all that yodeling.

@Miranda Kali: Well, I must admit, sometimes I include the yodeling anyway. The clown doesn't love it, but it drives the nun craaaaazy!

@92BuickLeSabre: I just wasted the entire day at work searching for "One legged yodeling clown nun shaggers" on Google. Thanks a lot.

@KiddChaos: Wasted? You must have accidentally had your safe search on.

Because if you had found what I've uploaded alone! it would not have been time wasted my friend!

@Dunny0:

They didn't die out, they turned themselves into telekinetic hermaphrodites.

It also reminds me of the Richard Matheson story (or was it Keith Laumer's ?) about the boxing manager who had to step in for his obsolete boxerbot and fight a state-of-the-art bot himself. It was also a Twilight Zone with Lee Marvin. The episode credited Matheson, but for some reason I feel like it was Laumer's.

The original graphic novel is really, really awesome. The way the concept's laid out, society and it's laws kinda cease to matter...when you consider it's not murder, but property damage, and you can stop becoming a victim of something like rape or assault when you can just unplug yourself. I had no idea they were making a movie, but if any recent comic deserves a cinematic adaptation it's this.

What was the name of that computer game brucie did a while back.I think his career had taken a nose dive and he did the voice for some hell beast fighting action hero."drop one on its time to jam"

I hope that, in the future, my avatar will not look nearly as hideous as that one of Bruce - one would think, that with the technology available, that such atrocities would not be a worry.

I recently read this graphic novel and really loved it. I'm interested to see how the movie turns out.

I own an original trade of the first issue and loved it. Never went back for the rest of the series, but always knew that there was something special about it and assumed that I would buy a trade of it sometime, but just never got around to it.

Anyway, I don't quite remember the story playing out like this; the surrogates weren't just "avatars," they could also autopilot and you could later catch up with its memories and sync with it, kind of like with an iPod. At least, that's how I remember it playing out, it's been a while.

@Miranda Kali: LOL! Brilliantly put!

@NefariousNewt: I'd pay to see Olivaw and Baley brought to the big screen... but only if Baley's character actually yells "Jehoshephat!" every 15 seconds.