Anton Yelchin As Kyle Reese In Terminator 4

Anton Yelchin (JJ Abrams' Star Trek, Charlie Bartlett) is in negotiations to star as John Connor's father Kyle Reese in director McG's Terminator 4 (which is still untitled... I say they just call it T4: The Future Begins). Yelchin would play a teenage version of Reese, who was played by Michael Biehn in the original James Cameron film.

According to Terminator mythology, Reese was born after the first war, and survived the capture and killing of his fellow humans only to serve as a Sonderkommando in one of Skynet's concentration camps. A a resistance movement, led by John Connor, freed Reese and others from Skynet. Reese volunteered to travel back in time to the year 1984, in order to protect the young Sarah Connor, the known mother of resistance leader John Connor, from a Terminator sent by Skynet. On the run from the Terminator (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger), Reese and Sarah shared a night of intimacy, in which her future son was conceived. Reese was later killed by his own pipe-bomb while attempting to destroy the Terminator.

In Terminator 4, Reese befriends Marcus (played by Avatar's Sam Worthington), an early version of the Terminator cyborg played in previous films by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Christian Bale plays a 30-year-old John Connor. Terminator 4 is the first film in a three film story arc. The more and more I hear about the plot of this film, the more excited I get. I'm not sure about Yelchin as Reese, but there is no denying that he's a talented actor. I'm very surprised at the level of talent they have been able to attract to this project so far.

David Campbell Wilson, John Brancato and Michael Ferris wrote the screenplay. Paul Haggis has also had talks about coming on board to do some script rewrites before principal photography begins in early May.

Discuss: Do you think Anton Yelchin will be a good Kyle Reese?