Terminator Salvation : The Future Begins

[Rappy Veteran]

if you meant the latest stuff then that was slash film

[Xero]

I was referring to this one, the ones above I saw on /film.

[iamwhoiam]

But then I get my hopes high, watch it, and feel underwhelmed.

Just like the doom movie :(

I never have any hopes at all for any movie based on a video game.

[Rappy Veteran]

Just found these 2 gifs from the trailer!

I am loving the motorbike one :p

[Victor Rambo]

First one sucks :p

[Jamushroom Veteran]

I also love the motorbike one. The first time I saw the trailer I actually thought it was a bike for humans. The 2nd time I saw the trailer I saw they where actually robots.

[Xero]

The first would look nicer if it was the scene of the bro getting yanked the **** outta the building. The bikes are cool though. Not sure how I feel about them though. Why the hell would the machines build a sweet bike lol

[Rappy Veteran]

[Xero]

Heh nice expression he has. Damn I wanna see this already.

[Victor Rambo]

Cool Pic :D

[Rappy Veteran]

[Xero]

:)

Btw, if this were a michael bay movie, we'd be listening to highway to hell during this scene

****in guy..

Edited January 3, 2009 by Xero

[Victor Rambo]

Btw Who is the terminator in the movie? :o

[Xero]

thats what arnie said, does there have to be one?

[Rappy Veteran]

Action Figures look a bit whack :|

[Xero]

Shoulda made some of those a link as it contains a potential spoiler to some people on here.

As for the figures, they're terrible..

[Rappy Veteran]

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Salvation Prequel Coming

In January, IDW Publishing debuts the comic book prequel to Terminator Salvation, opening in theaters on May 22. Here is how the company describes the comic:

"Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel" is written by Dara Naraghi ("Lifelike") with art by Alan Robinson and cover by Nick Runge.

The year is 2018. With John Connor as the voice of the resistance, the scattered remnants of humanity find themselves united against their common enemy: Skynet and its Terminators. Through a patchwork system of radio transmitters, hacked satellite phones, and encrypted computer networks, resistance leader Elena Maric in Detroit, and Nigerian mining engineer Bem Aworuwa, have formed an unlikely friendship and drawn up battle plans to take the fight to the Terminators!

Like the film they tie-in to, IDW's Terminator comics will push the timeline of the franchise past Judgment Day and into all new territory, allowing for stories and visuals previously only hinted at on film. The series will take the core concept of the Terminator films and give them a more global scope showing not just John Connor, but other humans who are either trying to survive or are actively part of the resistance. Writer Dara Naraghi says he was interested in exploring new themes?not just the action of a monumental battles, but also the game of basic survival the characters find themselves facing in such a war torn and desolate future.

"All over the world, people find themselves having to band together regardless of what their previous station in life or prejudices might have been," Naraghi explained.

FC ? 32 pages ? $3.99 Diamond order code: NOV084118

[Rappy Veteran]

Rumors of cameo appearances in Terminator Salvation refuse to die. E! online reports that at a New York preview screening of the film on Monday, McG was asked by producer Dan Lin what surprises the film might have in store, to which he responded, ?I can?t talk about it. I can?t talk about the governor of California.? I wonder what he was getting at exactly?

On top of that, we?ve also heard from Coming Soon reporting from the same event that there?s a possibility Sarah Connor might appear in the series: ?After the presentation was over, we talked with McG at the cocktail reception that followed and asked him whether he planned on doing any sort of recap of the first two movies as an introduction for those who didn?t get a chance to see them. He said they were still trying to figure out what to do, but one option they came up with was to have Sarah Connor do a voiceover to open the movie.?

Certainly the Terminator franchise is no stranger to Sarah Connor voiceovers, and opening the film with Connor talking about the inevitability of the future or something like that would probably keep with the tone of the series. McG has said in the past that the new film will not follow the mythology set forth by The Sarah Connor Chronicles so it seems unlikely that Lena Headey, who plays Connor in the series, would be involved. If McG chooses to go the Connor voiceover route, it seems remotely possible that Linda Hamilton might reprise her role, but I wouldn?t be surprised if he went in another direction either.

Finally, Latino Review has a massive write-up of the whole thing, with tons of juicy details about the film and its production (with potential spoilers). Some highlights:

* Actor Christian Bale told Jonathan Nolan, the film?s co-writer, that if the script could be performed as a straight stage play, he would commit to appearing in it.

* The new film will adhere to the timeline set forth in Terminator 3 but not The Sarah Connor Chronicles

* McG expects Elfman?s score to have a ?a Wagnerian quality as well as use most of [T1 and T2 composer] Fiedel?s themes and ambient sounds.?

* Although the story will feature John Connor prominently, it will primarily center around the development of Kyle Reese?s character, who will be played by Anton Yelchin.

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[Xero]

I'm still nervous about Anton Yelchin. Hope they pull it off right, but I do like the idea of them basing a lot of it about him as Kyle Reese is easily one of my favorite characters. Also having Linda Hamilton do a voiceover at the start to wrap up the first 3 would be great, nice touch and easily get the details out of the way.

That T600 looks pretty badass. Love the comparison of sizes, and stupid Michael Bay talking smack because they have a giant robot. We don't see the harvesters transforming into shiny gm cars now do we?

[SPEKTRE76]

I really cant wait to see this movie. Have any of you seen the new trailer? It leads me to believe that John Connor is sent to the future somehow. Because in the beginning he asks some kid 'What year is this?" then he asks what had happened here. I really love the T-Series model comparison. I wish I had a Hi-Res original image. I have seen some around the net but they all lead to godaddy.com????

Anyway a T movie about the war is fantastic!!!!!! I was 8 years old when the first one came out.

Oh I noticed that John Connor is 13 in 1991? He was born in 1984 how can this be? Unless the T-2 movie took place in 1997?

[Xero]

It did. Also that's not Connor who is asking the year, its Marcus.

[qdave]

that giant robot doesnt look that good...a bit pointless :p

[Rappy Veteran]

Salvation to be shown in IMAX

During a screening in Hollywood of footage from Terminator: Salvation on Wednesday, director McG revealed a wealth of new details about his upcoming film, including its potential rating, running time, whether Arnold Schwarzenegger will be involved and what he really thinks of Michael Bay.

The following is an edited version of the session from the event.

Will we get to see the film in IMAX?

McG: I wanted to shoot the film with this dead stock [old film that has been distressed to give the movie a desaturated look]. Therefore it wasn't conducive to shooting it in IMAX format. But we're going to bump it up to IMAX. We are going to bump it up, and it holds up very nicely, and it looks and sounds that much more impactful. But one price we had to pay for making those choices was that we didn't shoot in IMAX.

What do you have in mind for the rating of the film?

McG: We got together early on, I got together with Christian [bale, who plays John Connor], and we want to make the best film possible. We don't care about the rating. We can't aim for the rating. There's one guy in the world who would be sharp with me about the rating, and he's sitting in here right now. He's [Warner Brothers executive] Jeff Rabinov, and we talked about this at Comic-Con. No joke. Jeff, rightfully so, because he's a tough businessman and people can run numbers at you, "It's this, it's that, you'll lose money." And Rabinov was the one who was cool enough to say, "Just shoot the movie. I'm not worried about it." All three of those [previous Terminator] films are R, so you've got a fearless Warner Brothers, which was excellent for us because it freed us up to just shoot the movie. Now, having said that, I'm not hung up about a PG-13. I look at The Dark Knight, and I think that picture was made compromise-free. I think it's an excellent artistic achievement, and I don't come out of there going, "Oh, if it would have been a little gorier, I would have liked it more." To the contrary. We don't aim for a rating, and we've been given freedom by the head of the studio to just make the best picture possible.

What's the running time looking at right now?

McG: Again, we're not particularly concerned about it. I mean, it's probably going to be right around two hours, maybe a little more than two hours, but we're not trying to target. And that's another thing: There's a guy who runs Warner, and he'll talk very intelligently about a certain cutoff of screenings where if you do it this way, you get x amount of screens a day, and if you do it that way, you lose that many showings a day. But we've been given the freedom just to make the best movie possible. Now I happen to think a lot of filmmakers are overindulgent in how their films run too long, but I don't like a movie that's 90 minutes in-out. I want a movie to have a correct length to have the maximum impact and give you something to think about as you exit the theater. I also think the audience is so intelligent that you can tell, oftentimes as a function of runtime, the amount of confidence in the quality of the film.

Have you spoken to Schwarzenegger at all about the movie?

McG: I have indeed. I spoke to Schwarzenegger, and I will be showing him the film shortly. I've got a lot to talk to him about in regard to the role he plays in this. It's something we've talked about a lot. It's a double-edged sword, because we've begun again; this is a new idea, and this is a new idea with Terminators, a new language. But he's such a part of it, the degree to which he'll be part of our film, you've got to be respectful of the seat he's in right now. We have to be sensitive, be intelligent, and he's our partner. He gets it, he does indeed wish us well, and I look forward to showing him the movie. I didn't want to do the movie if Schwarzenegger was like, "F--k you guys!" I want Schwarzenegger to at least feel respected.

Are you concerned about being up against another movie with giant robots this summer [Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, whose director, Michael Bay, has accused McG of mimicking his giant robots]?

McG: Well, I refer to the work of Michael Bay to eliminate what not to do. That's a joke. I talked to him an hour ago. Truthfully, the Harvester is a little reminiscent of a Transformer, and I don't want that. It's an ancillary character in our film, and our film is so different. It's something that Michael and I have talked about; Michael and I cut our teeth in a similar way, shooting a lot of film and coming up in the commercial [and] music-video industry. So I want to make sure there's no way we're going to have anything reminiscent of that. That also has decidedly manga characteristics; it's colorful and has machines hitting hip-hop poses. I like those movies, but we're not making that movie, and I say that in fun because I truly talked to Michael Bay two hours ago, because he took a jab at us. He emailed me today, and we talked, and it's a healthy competition. So we'll see who the last man standing is.

When you were in story meetings, were you planning one movie or several?

McG: We have already broken stories for the second and third movies. We don't explore time travel in this movie, and it's a huge part of the mythology. Having said that, we would never be so bold as to presume there will be another movie. A lot of people get in trouble thinking they have the best thing since sliced bread, the audience goes like this [thumbs down], and there isn't a second movie. I would never presume a second movie, even though Christian and I have talked about it. We talked about all of that, and we're ready to go if audiences say, "We want it." And we prefer to leave that to the audience.

Edited January 19, 2009 by Rappy

[Roger H. Veteran]

oooh nice nice :) sounding good already!

[Xero]

The director knows it will take considerable polish to restore the franchise's sheen in the wake of Arnold Schwarzenegger's much-maligned 2003 swan song, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. And he cheerfully acknowledges that some observers initially questioned the wisdom of reviving the Terminator franchise with him at the helm.

"Nobody heard 'Terminator 4' and said, 'Oh that's a great idea -- I know, let's get McG to do it!" said McG when he rolled clips from his upcoming movie in Los Angeles earlier this month. "This ******* who did Charlie's Angels, and what kind of **** calls himself McG?'"

With one eye on the screen and the other on reactions from fans and journalists gathered at the Directors Guild of American screening room, the former music video director showed off the post-Judgment Day world he's crafting for Terminator Salvation. The scenes showed new Terminator models and bleak vistas from a nuke-ravaged Earth destroyed by sentient computer network Skynet.

Work-in?progress action sequences looked impressive enough to suggest that McG and his collaborators might just restore the franchise to its former glory.

The following exclusive concept art and images reveal McG's vision for Terminator Salvation as the director talks about putting the pieces together in time for the movie's May 22 release.Getting the Robots Right:b> "The first film shows Schwarzenegger's T-800 coming from 2029 back in time," McG said. "Salvation takes place in 2018, so you see the R&D that went into the T-800. It's like the polio vaccine: You've got to go through a lot of lab rats to get to vaccine. In this film, humans are the lab rats. Skynet is testing on us to figure out how to make a photorealistic, leaner, smaller, more capable machine -- the T-800."A.I. Meets Skynet:b> "Artificial intelligence was so foreign during the glory days of '70s and '80s science fiction -? Blade Runner, Alien, Terminator," Mc G said. "In this day and age, it's here! You spell a word wrong on your BlackBerry, it spells it right for you. You got a bad knee, they put a titanium one in there. If you're depressed, we're not going to talk about your mom and dad, we're going to manipulate your serotonin re-uptake inhibitor and you're going to feel better in two weeks. I've always loved stories about 'That which makes us great will be our undoing.'&quoPost-Apocalyptic Cinematography: "We talked to the people who monitored Chernobyl about what the world would sound and look and taste and feel like after the bombs have gone off," said McG. "Then we got a dead Kodak stock. We baked it in the sun a little bit too long to damage the film, and then we shot on uncorrected Panavision lenses that flare more easily and aren't quite as sharp as Primo lenses but have an interesting patina. Most importantly we added three times as much silver in the processing than one traditionally would to a color stock. Add it all up and you get this otherworldly, desolate feeling.&quoVisual Effects: "It's critical to push the visual effects forward in this film," said McG. "In Terminator 2, when Robert Patrick's head came apart, that's pushing it forward. So we hired Charlie Gibson who's won two Academy Awards and did Gore Verbinski's last four or five movies. He's up there at [industrial Light & Magic] cooking up a few things that I can say in fairness will go beyond viewers' expectation.&quoCalming James Cameron's Skepticism: "I didn't want to feel like the guy who gave birth to the Terminator is against what we're doing, so I go to see James Cameron to kiss the ring and tell him what I was trying to do," McG said. "He's cordial but says, 'I'm not going to endorse your movie. I reserve the right to hate it. But I wish you well, and if you're going to make a Terminator I'd prefer you make a good one to a bad one.'&quoThe Quest for Credibility: "To get some credibility back into the Terminator mythology, we had to show the fans we really mean business by getting a great John Connor," McG said. "To me the choice was very simple: Christian Bale.&quoBale Just Says No: "I met Bale at a pub in England while he was shooting Dark Knight," McG said. "He said, "I'm not interested in action, I'm not interested in pyrotechnics, I'm interested in story. If you can get the script to a place where actors on stage could just read it, naked, and it would be compelling for two hours because the characters change and evolve, then we'd have something to talk about." We had a respectful conversation, I gave him Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to read but his answer was: "Until it's on the page, I'm not doing it.&quoThe Jonathan Nolan Rewrite: "I went to Jonah Nolan, who co-wrote The Dark Knight," said McG, "and A) has a good dynamic with Christian, and B) he's a very intelligent guy who puts story and character at the forefront. So after Jonah worked on the script, we got Christian on board.&quoCo-star Sam Worthington: "Alan Horn, the guy who runs Warner Bros., likes to kid, 'If you want a tough guy, you've got to hire somebody from Australia,'" McG said. "Sam's a pretty powerful screen presence. He can hold his own with Bale in a two-shot.&quoConnor's Story: "John Connor doesn't come into the picture saying, 'Follow me and everything's going to be cool,'" said McG. "He's just one of many soldiers when we meet him. It's like [spider-Man] where you're Peter Parker: 'Hey I'm just a lowly high school photographer,' and he learns with great power comes great responsibility. Or the hacker [in The Matrix]: 'They call me Neo, who cares?' 'quot;No man, you're the one, you're going to lead us!' Of course Luke Skywalker, on and on, all those Joseph Campbell archetypes. So this is the story of how John Connor becomes leader of the resistance. He has to earn it.&quoMachine Music: "I wanted the sound of the resistance to be very delicate, reminiscent of Gustavo Santaolalla's analog guitar, so I thought of putting Gustavo together with Thom Yorke of Radiohead for the machine sound," said McG. "But their schedules were too tough, so then Danny Elfman articulated his sonic vision for the picture. He's a huge Terminator fan. I wish I could show you his house. Elfman lives in a haunted house that has strange prosthetic limbs from the turn of the century hanging on the wall.&quoFlesh-and-Blood Robots: "A lot of people make CG movies where actors are emoting to poles with tennis balls on top of them," said McG. "That's the last thing I wanted to do. I don't like dealing with cartoons, so to speak. I wanted real robots for the actors to interface with so you could get that grittiness and realism. There's an archetype shape to the T-800. We needed body types to suggest the robot that would combat John Connor, and Roland Kickinger is a good body type. His shoulders are huge, his waist is narrow. The [industrial Light & Magic] guys used their calipers to measure shoulder spatial differences and said he'd make a good body double. Roland as an individual is not in the movie."

Stop Them Before They Multiply: "Imagine it's 1944 and we sneak into Hitler's Germany and find all these V-2 rockets with nuclear tips they're not supposed to have," said McG. "We'd go back to the powers that be and explain, 'This is a huge problem; it's going to change everything.' That's what happens with Connor ?-he's got to raise the curtain and defeat Skynet because the launch of the T-800 means curtains for everyone.&qThe Third Act:t: "Is Skynet smart enough to use the best parts of ourselves against ourselves? Can we trust the machine?" Mc G asked. "Therein lies the rub and that's what act three is all about. The ending of this film is elliptical. It's going to make a lot of people mad and you'll see lot of people scratching their heads. It's not disposable, where you forget about it before you even get to the parking lot. It's going to make you think."

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Some new pics..

I win :)ppy :)