Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Terminator
Salvation: The Future Begins
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6/30/08 - Helena Bonham Carter may join McG's Terminator Salvation. Roles in the new film have been kept under wraps, but insiders described the Bonham Carter role as small but pivotal. Principal photography on the Halcyon-produced movie, which looks at the origins of the battle between humans and Skynet, started last month in New Mexico, with the idea that most exteriors will be shot before a potential actors' strike. Warners is scheduled to release the action film in May 2009.
06/02/08 - Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to replace Charlotte Gainsbourg in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Gainsbourg was originally set to play Kate Connor, the wife of human resistance hero John Connor, played by Christian Bale. The actress had to bow out because of scheduling conflicts with another film.
05/23/08 - Warner Brothers announced that Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, the fourth installment in the SF franchise, began production on May 5 in Albuquerque, N.M., and offered new details about the movie's storyline and cast. Warner also offered new details about the film, which is set in post-apocalyptic 2018. Bale's Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, 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. The film also stars Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, Charlotte Gainsbourg as Kate Connor, Moon Bloodgood as Blair Williams, Common as Barnes and Jadagrace as Star.
05/22/08 - Christian Bale is to play rebel leader John Connor in three sequels to the Terminator franchise. "He read the script, and he loved it, so he's signed on for all three," Derek Anderson, business partner of Halcyon films' Victor Kubicek. McG is directing the first prequel film, which is slated for release on May 22, 2009.
05/06/08 - Rapper/actor Common has signed on to co-star in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Christian Bale and Sam Worthington have already boarded the project. McG will direct from a script by John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris and Paul Haggis. The film is eyeing a May 22, 2009, release. We'll keep an eye on this date. Our guess is that it'll change.
04/21/08 - Moon Bloodgood is in final negotiations for the female lead in McG's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, the fourth movie in the SF franchise. Bloodgood will star alongside Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin in the sequel, which is being produced by Halcyon Co. and set for a Warner Brothers release in the summer of 2009. Bloodgood will play a no-nonsense and battle-hardened member of the resistance.
03/19/08 - Anton Yelchin is in negotiations to star as post-apocalyptic warrior Kyle Reese in director McG's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Yelchin will play a teen version of Reese, the man who fathered world savior John Connor in the original Terminator film and who was played by Michael Biehn. Christian Bale will play John Connor in the time-traveling third sequel to the 1984 SF action film, produced by the Halcyon Co. and set for a Warner Brothers release in the summer of 2009. The film picks up with Connor, now in his 30s, fighting desperately to save a decimated civilization against machines that have taken control.
11/28/07 - Christian Bale will play a grown John Connor in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, the upcoming fourth film. The movie is expected to reboot the franchise with a story set in the future, during the all-out war between Skynet and humankind. Warner Brothers plans to release Terminator Salvation in summer 2009.
11/02/07: Warner Brothers has acquired North American distribution rights to Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, triggering an early 2008 production start for a film that seeks to reinvent the cyborg saga with a storyline to be told over a three-film span. The movie is expected to reboot the franchise with a story set in the future, during the all-out war between Skynet and humankind. Warner plans to release Terminator Salvation in summer 2009. It's unclear if Arnold Schwarzenegger would have a role.
Update 3: We're hearing more and more about Terminator 4. It seems the fourth movie is near completion. There's been some talk about spinning another trilogy of movies that will tie into the TV series.
Update 2: Fox
has committed to a pilot for a Terminator-themed TV show
tentatively titled The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Variety
reported. Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar's C2 Pictures, which produced
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, has struck a deal with
Warner Brothers Television and writer Josh Friedman (War of the
Worlds) for the series, which will focus on Sarah Connor and her
son, John Connor.
Friedman is aboard to write the pilot and serve as executive
producer-show runner of the series, which would take place in the
fictional time frame between the second and third Terminator
movies.
Meanwhile, Vajna confirmed to Variety that C2 is in "the
final phases of development" of a fourth Terminator movie,
and the series will have a link to what's being envisioned as a new
feature trilogy.
Linda Hamilton, who played Sarah Connor in the first two
Terminator movies, is not expected to be involved in the show.
And because the series will be focused on the Connor family, it's
not anticipated that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played the
title character in the films, would be a regular part of the series
either.
Middleton said the series will explore what happened to Sarah Connor
after the end of T2, when the character went on the run.
Update 1: Nick Stahl was recently quoted that he nor Claire Danes will return in the next Terminator movie. It's unlikely Arnold will return either even though the grounds for a fourth film seem to be progressing. Still can't imagine a Terminator without Arnold!
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