I’m always interested in any info about the new Terminator movie that they’re going to make even when the info isn’t any much different than the last one I heard concerning this project.
SCI-FI Wire recently had a chat with producer James Middleton about TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS, the first of the new trilogy films.
“It’s set after the events of [Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines], where we see the nuclear exchange at the end of the movie, and we show what the world is like after this event, and we show how people try to deal in a post-apocalyptic world,” Middleton added. “And we introduce a new character, who becomes very important to the resistance and to John Connor, a new hero. It’s really about the birth of a new hero.”
“I would look at him [John Connor] as a character that is introduced and that will grow in the second and third movies of the trilogy,”
So… in a way… Doesn’t it sound kinda like Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace where Liam Neeson played Qui-Gon Jinn paving the way for Obi Wan Kenobi?
Meddleton also mentioned a few things about the possibility of having Governor Arnold do a cameo.
“He has been approached, and in the early days of our development of T4, one of our producers, Andy Vajna, who’s a good friend of his, spoke to him about doing a cameo,” Middleton said. “This was even before he was governor. But we know now that he is governor, he’s got priorities that are above doing movies.”
“There is no possibility of Schwarzenegger appearing in Terminator Salvation or subsequent films as long as he is governor.”
Like I said before, it’s nothing new to what has been mentioned in previous Terminator info.
TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS will be directed by McG and all they’re waiting right now is for the writer’s strike to be over with so they could do a rewrite and start production this April for the release in 2009.
