Terminator Salvation Spoiler: Serena

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Stop reading right now if you are scared of spoilers because, frankly, there’s not much else in this entire post. This whole news item exists, pretty much, to give away plot details from Terminator: Salvation. If you’re anything like me you’re chomping at the bit to get past this warning and on to the dirt.

Editor’s Note: Potential spoiler after the jump. You have been warned.

Not much of substance has been said about Helena Bonham Carter in the next Terminator. I expect this is for two reasons. The first would be that her role is rather small, though reportedly very important. The second would be that not much is known about it. After the break, I’ve positioned a little look at piece of concept art that reveals something very interesting about Serena Korgen. It comes from Fast Company, who also have a lovely two-part video interview with McG.

So, here she is. And as you can see, the spoiler is… she’s a blonde. That and, you know, she’s a little bit roboty.

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That’s another Terminator cast, then. For Fast Company to be flashing this image around so proudly - they’ve used it on their front page, even - I guess WB can’t be too concerned about it being a key spoiler. I don’t think the cybernetic nature of Serena Korgen is going to be the lynchpin for the big finale.

Bonham Carter joined the cast relatively late and, unfortunately, shooting then had to be delayed while she returned home from the set after a family tragedy. Apparently, she took the role at the behest of Tim Burton who is something of a Terminator fan. Does that mean he’ll pick up the franchise reigns once McG is ready to hand them over? Er… probably not, eh? But I’d definitely be interested to see his take on this kind of material, even if he’d possibly be reluctant to give it.

Correct me if I’m wrong but there’s been no sight of an actual from-the-film image of Serena, so this concept art is somewhat of a first.

  • What I'm wondering about is the brain!
  • patrick nicholson
    i am too.......i onestly think that she is really still a human and was just hurt almost like two-face in the Dark Knight. I am still a huge fan of terminator but still....u cant see any metal skeleton and u would be able to see at that angle the red light that acts as eyes from a terminator.Any way, i hope that it is a really good movie and i really think that McG knows what he is doing.
  • Announcing it was going to be a spoiler, was a spoiler in itself. Really, with Terminator Salvation, and anyone saying, "WARNING: Spoiler photo ahead!", there's really only one thing it really can be.

    I mean, yeah you have to say it's a spoiler any which way, but just sayin'....
  • I have changed the headline and story so that the front page gives you no information about the spoiler except for the word "Serena". We need to give readers some indication of what the spoiler involves.

    And honestly, I would think that since the character doesnt appear in the first half of the movie (from what I can tell) and nothing has been revealed about her, any information would be a spoiler. So I'm not sure how you guys figured out what the spoiler was just from the mention of a spoiler.
  • Peter
    Is every character in this movie actually a Terminator? Seriously.
  • jason B
    i know, right?! i've got faith in this film because of nolan & bale, but WTF is the deal with McG trying to make his whole fucking cast cyborgs? i'm beyond glad that the ineptly retarded idea of a john conner robot was trashed.
  • Nolan has nothing to do with this movie. At least I haven't heard anything about his involvement and IMDB doesn't claim him as involved.

    Also, how much story work did McG do. He isn't listed as a writer (IMDB again). Did someone write a story he pitched or did he simply pick up the script. If so you can't blame him for the oodles of terminator people.
  • Randy
    spoiler? thats just a bad photoshopped image!
  • That's concept art for you.
  • is that photo done with CGI, though? I assume the Terminators are done by CGI, yes?
  • Randy
    let me elaborate REALLY bad.
  • [A]
    concept. art.
  • What might be noteworthy is that she's a decidedly more organic looking cyborg than usual.
  • Kevin
    I hear theres an intense emotional scene where we find out the DP is a terminator
  • Madely Bozo
    Concept art is normally made on photoshop
  • It looks nothing like H.B.C.

    I hope that every ten minutes of this film it is revealed that yet another character is a Terminator. Could get tedious. And I hope that rumoured ending isn't true also.
  • Yea its the scene where the DP is checking the lights.
  • I don't fucking understand.
  • Seriously, I had to check IMDB to make sure it was the same character, she looks nothing like this person
  • we shouldn't be surprised that characters are robots. isn't that what the film is about? terminators?
  • C'on
    We're just that good, Peter.
  • I still say this film looks a hell of alot better then Wolverine.
  • I almost forgot that Helena Bonham Carter was in this movie. Now there's an image of her with half of her face missing, I'm not even sure that's her, and that's about it. I'm starting to wonder how big her role is considering this and the fact that her named doesn't get mentioned at all when people talk about this film.
  • The rumor was from a possible script leak that happened before they hired a Nolan to get the job done right. After that, it seems as though the ending you are referring to has been scrapped, possibly for a later movie or to never be used.
  • landdill
    Take out the last dot, nub.
  • hahahaha thats awesome hahaha who knew thered be robots in a terminator movie. and robots that look like humans thats unheard of hahaha good call sir
  • It kinda looks like Mars Attacks.
  • freemachine
    Like that's some kind of achievement?
  • AMAZING. but I dont see any spoilers there...? and I'm still excited for the film.
  • Wasabi Steak
    You dont see a spoiler in the fact her character is a terminator?

    lol@the poor handling of this movie in giving this spoiler.
    fuck it...
    lol@the poor handling of pretty much EVERY movie in 2009
  • Stacy
    It's not a spoiler...google Terminator Serena and you'll find stuff like this http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/I-950.
  • Helena Bonham Carter and Anton Yelchin are the main reasons I want to see this film. So even if she's in it for, like, 3 minutes, I'm okay with that.

    Also, it may not look like HBC because... she's blonde and has half of her face torn off. It looks like her to me, especially the nose, eye, and lips.
  • it doesn't surprise me, I anticipated this. I'm excited for this movie!!!!! and WOLVERINE looks like shit, and I love the X-Men series



    I just read a post ... photoshop is a definite possibility... that does look very "enhanced" for internet viewing. It could be fake
  • Randy
    My bad I just read it was concept art
  • Jeff
    Yeah but isn't the point that this Terminator has a human brain?
  • Rich
    She's a hybrid of human and terminator. She was a doctor working for cyberdyne and was suffering from terminal cancer. Apparently she convinces Marcus to give up his body for Project Angel, her research project. and Skynet gets hold of it.
  • bal
    that pic is from surrogates k. U cheater
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