Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins News (Page 2)

In theaters these days, prior to The Dark Knight, Christian Bale is featured in ads for Terminator Salvation.

The actor recently told MTV he was excited to be jump-starting another iconic franchise.

“I see there is great potential for reinvention and revitalization of the mythology of it,” Bale said. “And that’s what I’m aiming to do. That’s what I feel like our responsibility is; otherwise there is no point in making it.”

Bale added that the script is similar to Batman Begins; it brings a fresh perspective to a fatigued series, while keeping one foot firmly planted in the past.

“In Terminator we are continuing a mythology,” he said. “We don’t ignore a mythology, [similar to what] we did with Batman.”

Roland Kickinger is a former bodybuilder that's inheriting a movie role made famous by another former bodybuilder.

According to The Clinton News-Record, Kickinger will portray the T-800 in Terminator Salvation. The muscle-bound actor talked about his role in the film (warning: slight spoilers ahead!):

"There's a very strong scene in the film where John Connor for the first time meets the Terminator, and he doesn't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy," said Kickinger. "It's Arnold's character in the first Terminator. That's basically my role, but 20 years before, so it establishes how the Terminator [came] about."

See if you can spot Roland Kickinger in the Terminator Salvation trailer.

IGN recently spoke with The Shield creator Shawn Ryan about "production rewrite" he underwent for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

Here are excerpts from the interview with Ryan:

IGN: How did you get involved on Terminator and how long did you work on it?
Shawn Ryan: One of the producers, Dan Lin, was familiar with my work and I sort of put the word out that I was looking for a movie rewrite job while I had the time to do one. I came in three weeks before filming began and took a pretty big whack at the script. I spent a lot of time with McG and with Dan and with [producers] Moritz Borman and Jeanne Allgood, who are also producers on the film, just sort of talking about where they were on the script they had and what needed to be changed and what we'd change it to.

I'd spend the days in Albuquerque talking about what needed to be changed and I'd go to my hotel room and sort of write all night, until like 4 in the morning. So we did a lot of work and then I had to come back because of TV commitments and I think they've subsequently brought in one or two other writers to continue the work.

So I don't know what will be there. But I got to meet with the actors – meet with Christian Bale and Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin and Moon Bloodgood, who are all in the film and talk to them about the characters and do some work on that. It's a franchise that I've always been really enamored with and I always loved those stories and it just felt like a great opportunity.

IGN: Knowing Christian Bale was playing John Connor, did that inform your writing of the character?
Ryan: Absolutely, yeah. I watched some of Christian's films just to try and get a sense of his voice and had a meeting with him and McG to talk about it. He's obviously a smart, wonderful actor and he's not going to put up with s***ty lines. [Laughs] So it put some pressure to make it good.

Check out the Terminator Salvation movie trailer now!

While Christian Bale is currently starring in the summer's most anticipated movie - a little flick called The Dark Knight - his next project is receiving almost as much publicity.

Indeed, Bale steps into the shoes of John Connor for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

The film's first trailer has hit the Internet. Check it out now

Helena Bonham Carter may star in Terminator Salvation, the first movie in a planned trilogy/relaunch of the Terminator franchise. The film is set for a May 22, 2009 release.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bonham Carter - who would join Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood in the movie - would play a role that is small, but pivotal.

Bonham Carter most recently starred as Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

In a recent interview, Christian Bale refers to Heath Ledger - his costar in The Dark Knight - as a "kindred spirit," adding:

"He was a unique character, a very infectious character. He was a good man, and I was glad to have spent time with him."

From Bruce Wayne to John Connor, Christian Bale doesn't shy away from iconic roles.

Bale also spoke at length about his role as John Connor in the upcoming, rebooting of the Terminator franchise. The actor said:

"I've always had two varying degrees of success, and I'm not talking about anything to do with box office. I'm talking about my own parameters. You know, an interest in attempting in a wide variety of stories. I never desired to be a big studio movie actor, action actor.

I've never desired to be a serious independent movie actor. I enjoy all of those. It depends on what mood I'm in. And therefore, I will try to bend those stories into becoming something that I can enjoy myself, varying degrees of success with that. We have an opportunity with it for a continuation, but also a reinvention, and I have to say, much the same way in my mind as we have with Batman.

And beyond that I won't say anymore because we're just starting."

No, we don't have the trailer for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins yet.

But we do have news on when fans might expect to see this movie's preview: rumors circulating around the Internet indicate that the trailer for this Christian Bale follow-up will hit theaters the same day as Bale's next film: The Dark Knight.

As if we needed another reason to go see that flick!

Based on posters such as this - which have been spotted around New York City - the next Terminator movie will be released around Memorial Day, 2009.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins director McG updated his blog earlier today.

The film maker shared insight on what fans can expect in the movie, while also addresses the spoilers concerning the ending that have been circulating around the Web.

Here are some of the more interesting nuggets McG shared in his blog:

• "This movie takes place several years after Judgment Day, but prior to 2029.

Just like it took a long time to get an HD plasma screen in our world, it took Skynet a lot of research and development to get to the T-800, and this movie explores that 'space between.' We have all been fascinated with the world after Judgment Day. Here it is."

• "In this film, there are Hydrobots that patrol the water, Transports that move human prisoners around, Harvesters that collect human beings as lab rats for Skynet and Aerostats that survey all that is going on with the resistance the world over."

• "Oh yeah, don't get too uptight about the prospect of the film being PG-13. We have entertained the idea of a PG-13 rating largely because Batman Begins, in my opinion, was made compromise-free. So we'll see. The movie comes first and it will be protected at all times…"

Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gainsbourg was originally set to portray Kate Connor, the wife of everyone's favorite human resistance leader, John Connor (Christian Bale). But the actress had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts with another film

Howard last starred as Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3 and next stars in the The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond.

Warner Brothers has released the following press release, hyping Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins:

In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators.

But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past.

As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.