According to ComingSoon.net, “Pitch Black” star Radha Mitchell (pictured, below) has joined the cast of Jonathan Mostow’s sci-fi thriller “The Surrogate”. She’s the second major casting after Bruce Willis, who had joined the project earlier. The movie, based on a sci-fi comic book series (the comic cover pictured, left), has a killer premise, and with Bruce Willis on the payroll, you can expect a budget big enough for Mostow to do everything he wants. And yes, Radha Mitchell ain’t bad, either.

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The Touchstone Pictures project is based on a graphic novel from Top Shelf Comix. The story is set in the near future, where humans live in isolation and interact vicariously through surrogate robots who are better-looking versions of themselves.

Willis plays a cop who, through his surrogate, investigates the murders of others’ surrogates. The cop is forced to venture from his own home for the first time in years and unravels a conspiracy.

Shooting will begin in the Boston area on April 28 for a planned release on November 20, 2009.

You can find more info on the comic here.