Remember earlier in the year when rumor spread across the interwebs that Josh Brolin would be playing a Terminator in McG’s Terminator Salvation? Well it turns out there was something to the rumor after all. Brolin admitted to MTV that he was in talks to join the production.
“Yeah. I talked to Christian [Bale] for a couple hours,” Brolin told MTV. “I really liked the script though I hear that’s not what they filmed. The one I read was very interesting and dark. Ultimately though I didn’t think it felt right.”
Brolin would probably have played the character of Marcus, which is played by Avatar star Sam Worthington in the completed film. [...]

Sony has released a new international motion movie poster for Terminator Salvation. Watch it in full motion below:
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Will Arnold Schwarzenegger appear in Terminator: Salvation? When the California Governor was spotted on the set of the sci-fi sequels, rumors began to circulate that Arnold would be providing a capture of his face to implant on a younger actor’s body.  Total Film was able to ask McG at a recent UK press event, and here is what the director said:

“We’re trying to synthesise a human character with a CGI character and that may or may not have something to do with the T800,” McG said with a smile. “At the moment it’s not good enough. And we’re running out of time.”

A little cryptic, but it seems like it might [...]

At Comic Con, McG claimed that James Cameron had officially given him his blessing for Terminator Salvation. Last Month, James Cameron shot back in an interview with E! claiming “there was no blessing involved”, he hadn’t read the script and that the fourth Termiantor film “could be a big steaming pile or it could be brilliant.” Fans mistook these comments as Cameron saying that he thinks the film is going to suck. Not so. Cameron has finally set the record strait, telling AICN: “I think all people heard was the steaming pile part and concluded I was against the film, which I’m not. In fact, it might be very good, [...]

Warner Bros has released a new Terminator Salvation featurette, which is essentially an interview with production designer Martin Laing. We get to see some of Lang’s concept art, animatics and new footage from the film. We also get our glimpse at some of the new Terminator robots featured in the new film. Put your opinion about McG aside, what do you guys think of the art and footage you’ve seen so far? I’ve honestly been very impressed with everything I’ve seen so far aside from the overly cheesy callback line.
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After Terminator Salvation, McG will direct a big screen adaptation of the upcoming spy novel, Dead Spy Running for Warner Bros. Written by Daily Telegraph journalist Jon Stock, the novel tells the origin story of former MI5 agent Daniel Marchant.
Patrick Janson-Smith has described the new series as “John le Carré meets Jason Bourne” and claims that Stock has “reinvented the spy novel for the 21st century.” Dead Spy Running sold to Harper Collins after an intense bidding war. The 320 page book is due out in July 2009. Warner Bros is quick to point out that McG will be directing the first installment or a planned franchise. Looks like Warner [...]

McG has posted a new blog on the Terminator Salvation website. Here are the major take-aways:

Principal Photography has wrapped
Christian Bale and Sam Worthington have been sown early cuts and “they seem pleased with where the film is headed.”
“Our focus is on story and character, but it’s fun diving into the world of visual effects.”
“We want the patina of the machines to be dirty and heavy and perfectly realistic - that’s why we built so much practically with Stan Winston.”
On producing revolutionary effects like Terminator 2: “There’s one sequence in particular where we’re trying to achieve something that’s never been done before. I don’t want to [...]

Just as Clerks pointed out that a bunch of hard working construction were behind the creation of the Deathstar, one must remember that hundreds of unknowing hardware and software developers were probably behind the creation of the computers which eventually destoryed most of humanity in judgement day.
“Unwittingly or not, you’re now a direct contributor to the mass slaughter of mankind. Never thought that comp-sci degree would lead to billions of deaths did you? Well at least you built something cool!”
Now you too can be on the Skynet development team with this t-shirt from Split Reason. Only $18.95.

Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or [...]

For months, the foggy perception online has been that James Cameron gave McG’s Terminator Salvation his “blessing.” Where did the Internet come up with this rumor? Well, McG has stated the endorsement as fact in numerous interviews, including in this E! Comic Con video. Earlier this month, Cameron set the record straight, and what’s more, the question over a “blessing” was never raised. He personally brought it up.
“It could be a big steaming pile or it could be brilliant. Sam Worthington is in the Avatar and the new Terminator and he likes the script, but I never saw it. There was no blessing involved.”
Of course, there’s the chance that McG [...]

A batch of new photos have popped up at Zimbio showing Christian Bale and his wife chatting with Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife. If you run your mouse over the image, you can hear imagined bits of the conversation, or you can watch the meet-up from a distance on YouTube. I’ve also included a close-up of Arnold’s hand. Just Jared confirms that Arnold visited the Terminator: Salvation set. As expected, today brings further speculation about Arnold’s contribution, however small, to McG’s Terminator reboot. An un-vetted tipster at Latino Review had this to say…
“…I have varous contacts in WB and from what i’ve been told the fans are in for a [...]

Warner Bros has released a new image from Terminator Salvation of Christian Bale as John Connor going head to head with Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright. At Comic Con they showed footage from this scene, where Wright was clearly held back by something as Connor screamed at him “You killed my father. You killed my mother. But you won’t kill me.” Click on the photo above to enlarge. Terminator Salvation hits theaters on May 22nd 2009.

IMPAwards has the first official teaser poster for Terminator Salvation. Meanwhile, TrailerAddict has the complete video of McG’s Termianator Salvation panel from this weekend’s Comic Con. No, it unfortunately doesn’t include the awesome footage that was shown… but it does contain most everything else. If you’re at all interested in this project, I highly recommend you watch the video to hear McG speak about his intentions.

At the Terminator Salvation Comic Con panel, McG effused about many of the film’s details. Here are some of the more interesting tidbits:
1. PG-13 Rating Rumors Debunked - At both the panel and the press conference, McG removed any doubts that he was under pressure to deliver a PG-13 rating for the film. Referring to the studio executives for this film, McG explained “I’ve been given their blessing to make the picture…and if it’s a rated R picture, then that’s that.” He elaborated that he’s not against the idea of a PG-13 rating, but that the ultimate rating will depend completely upon what the final vision for the film is.
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At this morning’s Terminator Salvation panel featuring McG and the cast of the film, the director unveiled several minutes of footage from the upcoming film. McG mentioned that filming is only 50% complete and that no CGI had been added yet.
The footage opens with a descending overhead shot of John Connor (Christian Bale), barely emerging from the scene of a helicopter crash. “Are there any survivors?” a cackling radio voice asks? “One,” Bale says quietly, then again, shouting, for emphasis. He walks off into the distance, as we begin to hear Bale’s dialogue in the film.
The rest of the trailer takes place in various places in 2018, when Earth has [...]

For those of you who loved The Dark Knight but are deeply concerned about the quality of McG’s upcoming Terminator Salvation, take heart: At today’s Comic Con press conference for Salvation, McG was asked about the involvement of Dark Knight scribe, Jonah/Jonathan Nolan, someone who McG previously mentioned had worked on the script.
According to McG, Nolan was “the lead writer of the film,” and “I don’t know how the WGA rules work but honest to goodness, we did the heaviest lifting with Jonah.” Currently, Nolan is uncredited on the film’s IMDB page.