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Anton Yelchin (upcoming Star Trek, Charlie Bartlett) is in negotiations to star as post-apocalyptic warrior Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Yelchin will play a teen version of Reese, the man who fathered world savior John Connor in the original Terminator film. Christian Bale will play John Connor in the movie, which is set for release on May 22, 2009.

Reese, one of the children who survived a machine-driven nuclear holocaust, befriends Marcus (Sam Worthington), an early edition of the Terminator cyborg played in previous films by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In McG's film, the character is a young version of the one played by Michael Biehn, who traveled back in time in the original to impregnate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and father the world's future savior.

The film picks up with their son (Bale), now in his 30s, fighting desperately to save a decimated civilization against machines that have taken control.

Anton Yelchin stars as the title character in Charlie Bartlett (opening this weekend) and as Pavel Chekov in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek movie.

The young actor recently spoke to MTV about the former. Here are highlights of the interview:

- Chris Pine won't doing any William Shatner-like thing: "No, no," Yelchin insisted when MTV asked. "Everyone is being respectful, but at the same time doing their own thing. I think we'd all look a little ridiculous if we copied the old characters."

- On Tyler Perry's Enterprise role: "Tyler Perry is in the Federation," the actoe said. "He's one of the Federation captain officials, of sorts. I can't spoil what happens, but he's an official in the Federation."

- Star Trek is aiming for both new and old-school fans: "It's a pretty cool action movie regardless of what you think of Star Trek," Yelchin said. "It's a sci-fi action film. Knowing nothing about Star Trek, and going in and reading the script, I was totally fine.

I thought it was great, and really interesting, and a lot of fun to read. Obviously, there are special [in-joke] perks if you've been a Star Trek fan for 40 years. But I hope that anyone would go and see this film, knowing that it's gonna be an action movie."