I am – Hercules!! Bruce Willis, who went back in time to deal with the 12th Monkey and once helped the supreme being with her multipass, will return to sci-fi with “The Surrogates,” from the “Terminator 3” team of writer-director Jonathan Mostow and screenwriters Michael Ferris and John Brancato. It’s based on the 2006 graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele. From Monday morning’s Variety:

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.

Willis is now way available because “Pinkville” is among the many pictures scuttled by the writer’s strike. Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.