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Leto II
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11/23/07 4:42pm
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Bale, liking a challenging role, has signed on to play Sarah Connor's corpse.
He gained weight for the part.
The2ndQuest posted:
Leto II posted:
I think the concept does lend itself to more movies (we haven't even seen the war yet), but only if they completely toss of the shackles of the Arnold/Linda Hamilton era. If you're going to squeeze every last drop of profitability out of these films, then at least don't try to make amends by awkwardly bending over backwards to include remnants of the previous films. John Connor in the future, war with the Terminators...go!
No, they abolsutely need to include the "final" attack on Skynet, Reese getting sent back through the vortex & Connor finding/reprogramming the T-800- hopefully using at least some of Cameron's abandoned T2 opening that featured those events. Would be nice if they could explain Skynet's survival long enough to sent back the T-X as well, unless they'r etaking the preferrable route of just ignoring T3 altogether.
Right, I absolutely would want to see some version of the taking of Skynet's complex (which is a major part of the conflict), but what I meant was that the story should spin off in entirely new, unhinted-at directions (the task of rebuilding the ruined Earth, dealing with "rogue" independent Terminators after Skynet's destruction, et al), rather than making Skynet's destruction the culminating event of the movie.
Or, make it the climax, and save some of that stuff for T5. Or, none of the above. I could get behind a completely new start for the series -- even something as extreme as an Arnold-less "reboot" -- if it frees the writers up to take some ballsy risks with the franchise.
If they're going off in entirely new directions like they seem to be, slavish adherence to the original, 25-year-old Jim Cameron backstory has become increasingly less and less important since he left the series.
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Chancellor_Ewok
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Kol_Skywalker posted:
I love this quote from:
http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/
"I think McG is capable of more than he’s shown so far but if he wants to be taken more seriously he can start by using his real bloody name."
LOVE the news about Christian Bale being cast as John Conner. Fingers crossed that this ultimately pans out.
Christian Bale is potentially a great choice for the part of John Connor. As for Jonathon Mostow, the people who should be directing this movie are the Wachowski Bros. You can't watch The Matrix, and the Battle of Zion in particular, and not tell me that the Wachowskis wouldn't make an abosutely STELLAR Terminator film, especially if the film's focus was the war with Skynet.
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Kol_Skywalker posted:
I love this quote from:
http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/
"I think McG is capable of more than he’s shown so far but if he wants to be taken more seriously he can start by using his real bloody name."
It's funny because I actually read a book where he was one of a number of directors who gave an extensive interview. A lot of people think that McG is some pretentious Hollywood thing he took on, but according to him, his father and grandfather called him "McG" growing up. Never anything else. So even though it's not the name on his birth certificate, he says he considers it more his real name than "Joseph Nichol".
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Bloody Disgusting posted:
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins Synopsis!
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Today we were supplied with the first official synopsis for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which stars Christian Bale as John Connor and has McG attached to direct. Here it is! The film is about John Connor (Christian Bale), now in his 30's and soon to be wife Kate Brewster realize they must create a resistance organization with Earth's remaining survivors against the army of robots slowly being built up by Skynet. As they are building this resistance, one survivor happens to be a traitor in disguise, and has a secret that nobody would ever come to suspect.
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Darth_Maul_Sith_Lord
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I pray Bale signs on  ...That would really lend some credibility to this project. McG is dumb, and I agree that if you want to be taken seriously in any business, you've got to drop the stupid nickname, I don't care if your grandma used to call you that, grow up.
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Sith_Lord_Linkoping
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Darth_Maul_Sith_Lord posted:
I pray Bale signs on ...That would really lend some credibility to this project.
He's been comfirmed. At least I think so.
ComingSoon.Net posted:
Producers on Terminator Salvation
Source: Entertainment Weekly on December 5, 2007
Entertainment Weekly caught up with Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek. They confirmed that Christian Bale is playing John Connor in the first film of the new trilogy and that shooting will start on March 15 in either Australia or Budapest with a budget "north of $150 million."
The two producers also talked about the other major character in the story. Here's a clip:
KUBICEK: The other lead character is a new figure. [Anderson laughs] And it's questionable if he's an enemy or not. That's not necessarily resolved.
ANDERSON: It's a really interesting time in the franchise because it's where all the fans have always wanted the franchise to go, and it hasn't to date, which is the post-apocalyptic world. It's after judgment day. So because we're in a different time in the mythology, it introduces a whole new set of circumstances and characters.
They also talk about whether Arnold Schwarzenegger will return for a cameo and more.
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black_saber
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I wonder if theres going to be a T7 threw T9 to explain about John Conners childerns.
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Darth_Maul_Sith_Lord posted:
I pray Bale signs on ...That would really lend some credibility to this project. McG is dumb, and I agree that if you want to be taken seriously in any business, you've got to drop the stupid nickname, I don't care if your grandma used to call you that, grow up.
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I agree. McG sounds like the name of a rapper, and not a very good one at that.
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CHUD posted:
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12.19.07
When Ain't It Cool broke the story that Christian Bale was in Terminator 4, playing John Connor, one of my sources became confused. That couldn't be true, I was told - John Connor is barely in the movie. Turns out that it's true, and that yes, John Connor is barely in the movie. Over the last week I have been gathering some details about Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, and while I am trying to steer clear of serious spoiler material, people who don't want to know anything about this movie should step away from the computer right now.
John Connor is not the main character of Terminator 4; that character is someone named Marcus. Marcus was put 'out of commission' before the nuclear holocaust on Judgment Day and he wakes up about 15 years before the future we see in the original Terminator films, which puts the movie at about 2015 or so. Marcus is a bad ass - think along the lines of Riddick - and what he finds is a blasted world filled with horror. Radiation poisoning, starvation, rampant jaywalking - all the things you expect post-apocalypse. There's also John Connor, who is trying to build a utopian society while running the human resistance.
Connor's role is apparently bigger in the second film; whoever they hire for Marcus (my understanding is that the part is not yet cast) will be around for all three films. Terminator 4 is going to be the most male-centric of all the Terminator films, but there is a butt busting female character by the name of Blair, a pilot for the human resistance.
They're going to need some buttkickers, because the scope of the action in Terminator 4 is HUGE. Lots of machine action in this film, including some battles with the T-600s. Yup, the rubber skin Terminators. And there's another familiar character that shows up - Reese shows up in a scene with John Connor. I don't know what his involvement in the next two films will be, though.
Finally, here's a story point that's probably a legitimate spoiler (although it's sort of the main crux around which the story revolves, so it will probably get blown in the advertising), so I'll invisotext this stuff: A big aspect of the story is the degrees of difference between a human and a Terminator. By which I mean cyborgs. By which I mean human brains in robot bodies.
I've gathered this info from a number of different sources, and while they all have different takes on the material (all mostly positive, with one of my sources saying that the story is great and that the action promises to be incredible), they all bring up one point of comparison: The Matrix films. Make of that what you will. For me, the information I've gotten - including really spoilery stuff I won't inflict on you - has gotten me jazzed. This film feels like it could be epic and erase the taste of the workmanlike T3 from my mouth. Let's hope McG can pull this off.
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Leto II
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McG Lusting After Josh Brolin For Lead T4 Terminator Role.
So basically, he'd be switch-hitting with Javier Bardem.
That, and apparently Jim Cameron has given his full blessing to the project. Also, McG discusses how the new FOX TV series will fit into the T3-T4 "timeline" (a term I now use very loosely).
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I could see Javier Bardem as a Terminator, but Josh Brolin seems like a stretch, although I suppose a lot of people probably said that about Robert Patrick.
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Juliet316
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Panther50 posted:
I could see Javier Bardem as a Terminator, but Josh Brolin seems like a stretch, although I suppose a lot of people probably said that about Robert Patrick.
I remember that Patrick was largely considered a 'pretty boy' before he took the role in T2. A lot of critism went into that casting until the film was released.
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Anton Yelchin as T4's Kyle Reese? Possibly.
Thanks to Huff, I now know what a "lipstick party" is. Yelchin might be interesting, but he seems too pretty-boy to be the rough-n'-tough, "grew-up-in-a-post-apocalyptic-wasteland" badass that Kyle Reese is/was.
So, is Sam Worthington playing the role they wanted Brolin for? Or is that still an evil Terminator?
They better have Michael Biehn in T6.
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Without Cameron, I doubt you'd get Biehn involved. And he'd be too old to play the role anymore.
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I've always thought the perfect ending to the Terminator movie franchise in the final movie would be having John Connor and his forces takeover the Time-Machine or whatever it is as Arnold's 1st Terminator goes back, followed by them sending Kyle back.
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