10 Actors DE-AGED For Huge Movie Roles

Set in the near future, Surrogates builds a world in which people are freed from pain and danger by “living” through robotic avatars of themselves, called - you guessed it - surrogates. FBI Agent Greer (Bruce Willis) is one such vicarious operator, but when a murder shakes the supposedly perfect society to its core, uncovering a sinister conspiracy, he has to ditch his surrogate and raw-dog reality in order to get to the bottom of it.

With such a killer concept, not just any old effects would do, and Industrial Light and Magic were brought on board with a smattering of other digital effects outfits, creating amongst themselves a second, younger version of the actor that audiences could really get behind.

To make the then-54-year-old Bruce Willis into a young, fresh-faced surrogate robot the hair and makeup team went ham on the practical effects, before the digital team took over in post and gave what VFX supervisor Mark Stetson described as a digital face-lift.

Unfortunately, too much of the attention went to the film's visual style, and not enough to the script, which winds up being predictable, forgettable, and not nearly worthy of the work that went in elsewhere.