Terminator Salvation : The Future Begins

[Rappy Veteran]

Casting News for Terminator!

It seems like only moments since Charlotte Gainsbourg was cast in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, but she's already had to bow out due to a scheduling conflict with a French comedy in which she is due to star. But fear not! Like a carroty-haired superheroine, Bryce Dallas Howard is already in negotiations to leap in and save the day, replacing Gainsbourg as Kate Connor, wife of John and fighter against the machines.

Strangely, Gainsbourg's decision doesn't appear to have been based on a sudden realisation that the film's title is beyond silly. Apparently her worry is that the still-rumoured actors' strike may halt production mid-way, in which case her French commitment might be in jeopardy. But it does leave us in the odd situation where the actor playing John Connor is five years older than the one in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but the actress now playing his wife is two years younger than she was there (Claire Danes). A lot of women would probably put up with nuclear apocalypse if they could age backwards like that - and, as a bonus, have their other half, Nick Stahl, turn into Christian Bale.

Still, such chronological niceties are perhaps best left unexamined, given that this is a series that depends on a man sending his own father back through time that he might be conceived, and then trying to change the future so said trip won't be necessary.

Filming's already started in New Mexico, with McG directing.

[Rappy Veteran]

If you were browsing l'interweb yesterday, you may have seen a possible spectacular spoiler for Terminator 4, aka Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Don't worry, we're not going to write it here, but, if it were true, it would be a very, very big plot reveal. Updating his official blog, McG has addressed the circulating scuttlebutt, suggesting that he's keeping up with everything that's said about this movie.

"There are only three people who know the ending. The unknown future rolls toward us," he said. Diversion or proof the rumour is wrong? Who knows, but we hope it's the latter.

The director also revealed a bit more about the robots that will be seen in this film, which takes place in the dark days of the war between humans and Skynet.

"In this film, there are Hydrobots that patrol the water, Transports that move human prisoners around, Harvesters that collect human beings as lab rats for Skynet and Aerostats that survey all that is going on with the resistance the world over....We've started shooting the T-600 - the bigger, grimier, nastier version that preceded the T-800. Like Reese says, they're easier to spot but they pack a mini gun and carry kick ass fire power. They're eight-foot tall killers that prowl the badlands looking for anything with a heartbeat to terminate."

He also discusses a little of Stan Winston's work on the robots, as well as the origin of the name McG (in a paragraph that made us feel rather sorry for him). You can read the full blog here.

[Rappy Veteran]

An advance look at a marketing teaser poster for McG?s Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins was revealed at the New York Licensing Show. The tagline on the bottom reads ?Becoming Self-Aware Memorial Day 2009?

MTV says that the first official teaser poster will hit theaters on July 18th, to coincide with Warner Bros? release of The Dark Knight. Attached to the Batman sequel will be the film?s first teaser trailer. The film is only a month into production, so it?s likely that the teaser will contain little or no footage from the actual film. And hey, you were going to The Dark Knight anyways, now you have another reason to be excited. And who knows, we might even get a peak at Zack Snyder?s Watchmen too (that is, unless they decide to hold off until Comic-Con).

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins hits theaters on May 22nd, 2009

[Rappy Veteran]

The Teaser Trailer has been attached to Dark Knight and here is the lowdown...incase you don't want to see and wait i'll spoiler tag it.

We've been hearing indications for a while that (not surprisingly) some form of teaser for McG's TERMINATOR SALVATION will be attached to THE DARK KNIGHT.

Ace Hunter sent us this message after taking part in a focus group which (in part, at least) involved the theatrical teaser for "T4".

Ace's description pretty much fits what we've been hearing through the grapevine.

It opens with footage of people out in every day life. Christian Bale voiceovers

something like:

"I always knew it would happen"...

Than a pause...

"They told me I could stop it."

The same people begin looking to the sky....

"That I could save us"?.

Looks of horror come across their faces as he says,

"They were wrong"?.

Music rises as we cut to black for a second. The Terminator theme starts, with the duh duh,

duh, duh, duh?.

NEXT SUMMER appears on the screen...

We get a quick shot looking out over a sunny desert, and then a shot of Bale, in badass commando uniform

and very recognizably the same guy who plays Batman, being lowered into a huge bunker

of weapons.

THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE

rolls across, and we get mixed clips from inside one of the survivor bunkers as seen in Terminator 1 - but they look more concentration campish; very crowded, shots of Bale walking with a large crowd. And then the word...

BEGINS.

The music quickly rises as we get shot of a huge truck racing down a high way, a shot or two of a helicopter flying mixed with more close ups of the actors when Bale whispers, "They're coming"?.

It all goes quiet.

Massive drums blare the beginning of the theme (again) but this time much louder, more pumped up, as we get a metallic silver T that morphs into a 4.

We then get the big money shot of the trailer. Its Bale on a motorcycle with some girl on the back.

They speed through a door of what looks like a warehouse toward us. As soon as they

pass the screen, a huge terminator on wheels, a lot like the one they battle in the

first one, smashes through the wall, chasing them. It looks awesome.

It then says:

Memorial Day 2009.

I was not a big fan of T3 aside from the ending, but this looks really good.

We've had confirmation that the material described above is, indeed, the trailer being shown to focus groups etc.

Seems to be exactly as described, although one reader said he felt "Bale looked a lot older than he did as Bruce, and quite battle scarred".

So there you have it.

/AICN

[Dirk]

I think this might do well because Christian Bale just can't seem to do a bad movie. He might be playing Robin Hood in the new Ridley Scott film.

[Tech Star]

I can't wait for the trailer to release. I want to just see that as I am a big fan of the terminator series. :D

[Rappy Veteran]

[Venomous]

I First thought no Arnold now Win.

Now thinking about it and looking at some of the pics I'm all up for this Love terminators!

[H82LUZ]

I wonder if anyone noticed The KISS ad on the park bench in the concept artwork on page 5.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I was not a big fan of T3 aside from the ending

The ending was amazing!

[H82LUZ]

They remade the classic movie The Day The Earth Stood Still? Looking at the poster beside the T4 one.

[Rappy Veteran]

They remade the classic movie The Day The Earth Stood Still? Looking at the poster beside the T4 one.

Yep :(

[Konstanov]

The important thing that I need to know is Summer Glau in this movie?

[Rappy Veteran]

The important thing that I need to know is Summer Glau in this movie?

:no:

[Xero]

The ending was amazing!

Best part of the movie imo

The important thing that I need to know is Summer Glau in this movie?

No afraid not, at least we have the tv series for that.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Bale as Connor, hopefully the PG-13 rating won't hurt it too much

[Rappy Veteran]

Yeah I hope its still really good even tho it has a PG-13 rating, I think closer to release I will go back and watch the films!

[Xero]

Considering robots aren't human a PG-13 rating shouldn't affect the violence. But won't be the same without swearing, who can run from a terminator without cussing?

As for watching the older ones, I went on a binge after Sarah Connor Chronicles ended, watched them both twice :D I'm really worried about the little skinny nerd who is playing Kyle Reese. I mean that guy was badass in the 1st film I have a feeling this guy is going to butcher the character.

[Rappy Veteran]

Considering robots aren't human a PG-13 rating shouldn't affect the violence. But won't be the same without swearing, who can run from a terminator without cussing?

As for watching the older ones, I went on a binge after Sarah Connor Chronicles ended, watched them both twice :D I'm really worried about the little skinny nerd who is playing Kyle Reese. I mean that guy was badass in the 1st film I have a feeling this guy is going to butcher the character.

"oh fiddlesticks this darn robot is following me again" :p

[Rappy Veteran]

Official Logo

[Scirwode]

Official Logo

Looks rusty :p .

Scirwode

[Rappy Veteran]

Helena Bonham Carter could soon be joining the battle between man and cyborg.

The British actress is in talks to board "Terminator Salvation," the fourth installment in the franchise kicked off by James Cameron in 1984. Roles in the new film have been kept under wraps, but insiders described the Bonham Carter role as small but pivotal.

Principal photography on the movie, which looks at the origins of the battle between humans and Skynet, started last month in New Mexico, with the idea that most exteriors would be shot before a potential actors strike. Warner Bros. is scheduled to release the action film in May. It comes from "Charlie's Angels" director Joseph "McG" Nichol.

The addition of Bonham Carter -- who received an Oscar nomination for 1998's "The Wings of the Dove" -- would bring a prestige element to a big summer crowd-pleaser.

"Salvation," however, wouldn't be the first event movie she has recently been in. Bonham Carter starred as Bellatrix Lestrange in Warners' 2007 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and is set to reprise that role in the franchise's next two films. She was in theaters last year with "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

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[C++]

The dude who directed Charlie's Angels directing a Terminator movie... Without Arnold... Somehow, I doubt that this will be much better than the third movie (which was crap.)

[zeta_immersion]

man, nice guns eh (to the above pic) .... i bet human kind still has a chance of survival now that arnold is NOT coming back :D

[Elliot B.]

The dude who directed Charlie's Angels directing a Terminator movie... Without Arnold... Somehow, I doubt that this will be much better than the third movie (which was crap.)

I loved the third movie. Better than The Terminator.

[ThePitt]

This new chick doesnt looks like the Johns wife. But we already knows that Terminator (arnold) doesnt looks the same since the 1st movie and Connor doesnt looks the same since the second movie...