The Easter weekend Surrogates reshoots had everybody in a tizzy. Was this another Hitch or Wolverine fiasco? Are we still tweaking the script? At the Terminator Salvation junket, I got a quick update from the screenwriters John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris on the status of Surrogates.

After joking about being type cast after putting out two robot movies in one year Michael Ferris explained the last he'd heard or seen about the shiny Avatars. "The last cut I saw, which was a while ago, it was looking really good. I know they were doing a little bit of reshoots. Yeah, they beefed up the action a little bit."

This seems to jibe with the pictures that were taken on at the reshoot site. Almost all the scenes used Bruce Willis' stunt double, so hopefully this means better car chase scenes, and not a quick alternate ending hastily tacked on at the last minute, as reshoots so often do.

We also grabbed a few stills from the recently released Surrogates clip, please do enjoy the army of no eyed bots:

Fox is putting everyone back on set, according to Collider. The whole movie is getting a huge makeover, which is terrifying considering the all of the stories about unhappiness between director Gavin Hood and Fox execs, including that report that the studio came in and repainted a key set behind Hood's back.

If the reports are true, the reshoots could mean one of two things: Fox is serious about making real money and wants to compete with the big comic-book movies. Which could mean taking the whole project much more seriously, making the storyline darker, or just adding much more brutal ass-kickery. On the other hand, all this new attention could mean that everyone sees how terrible the film looks, and they're desperately trying to bail out a sinking ship.

Then there's the matter of Richard Donner appearing on set. The Goonies director and X-Men producer may be brought on to "save" Wolverine, but is it too late?

Either way I'm glad Fox is going the extra mile — hopefully all this extra time will result in a film that won't make us want to stab our eyes out with adamantium claws.

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Enter Shauna Robertson, Judd Apatow's producing partner, who's been brought in by studio boss Harvey Weinstein to make the movie more palatable to audiences. And according to the AIC post, that makes it less palatable to those closest to its heart:

Apparently the Apatow people have done research which says most people won't laugh for 5 or 10 minutes after cancer is mentioned so they want to do away with the entire cancer subplot and I've heard they have a version which edited out the entire cancer plot. This means it's just a group of punk kids breaking into Skywalker Ranch to steal a movie to see it before it comes out. Why would I root for these kids to steal the film, if the noble reason for doing it is gone?

The Weinsteins effing the f out of FANBOYS?!? [Aint It Cool.com]