MTV News has been one of longest holdouts around the blogosphere to hop on the Terminator: Salvation bandwagon. But after being treated to a special fifteen-minute screening of the film this past Monday, even the Vee-jays had to confess: Terminator: Salvation is looking pretty badass.
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As per the deal, MTV couldn’t reveal much about what they saw during the screening, boiling the experience down to this superficial account:
The clips the director unveiled made for a fantastically noisy spectacle of carnage and fire, speeding trucks and exploding tankers, cool-looking mechanical creations and old school hand-to-bot combat.
Pretty much what most of us were able to glean from the two-minute trailer that dropped a month ago. Still, kudos to MTV for passing on the insider confirmation!
Some other interesting tidbits MTV learned during a Q&A with Terminator Salvation director McG, after the screening:
- Apparently the film wasn’t planned as a PG-13 movie. According to McG, no rating was factored into the creative process; PG-13 is just what the MPAA slapped on it. Though McG added it’s definitely more of a Dark Knight PG-13, rather than a kid-friendly PG-13.
- Salvation will only follow the continuity established by T1 and T2. Apparently, McG wanted his film to steer clear of the stains left by T3 and The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
- The new look of the film will be more “Blade Runner” than traditional Terminator films, including intricate dusting F/X built off models like the Chernobyl disaster, in order to simulate a future America that has been ravaged by nuclear fallout.
- The story will focus on John Connor’s attempt to discover his revised role in a future that has been radically altered from the one his mother, Sarah Connor, foretold. (That’s what happens when you mess with time-travel…)
And speaking of Sarah Connor, there is some speculation that Linda Hamilton, the actress who portrayed Sarah Connor in all her buffed-up glory in the first two Terminator films, might return for some kind of cameo in the new installment.
Really, that “rumor” is nothing more than some wishful thinking taken from a side comment McG made during the Q&A about how at one point he envisioned having Sarah Connor do a voice-over to open Salvation. But still, considering all the time-travel storylines that eventually HAVE to get factored into this new Terminator trilogy, seeing Hamilton make some kind of appearance would be pretty sweet.
So what do you think? is Terminator Salvation still high in your list of most anticipated movies of 2009?
Sources: MTV News & Coming Soon
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Damn, just scrolling through this and seeing that image of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor all decked out gets my blood pumping, lol. She was such a bad-ass.
Is this comment really correct - “Salvation will only follow the continuity established by T1 and T2. Apparently, McG wanted his film to steer clear of the stains left by T3 and The Sarah Conner Chronicles.” ?
Pretty sure it follows T3 as well, even though McG did not like that movie. The Sarah Connor Cronichles is what he officially said T4 isn’t following.
Might I just add that I was browsing the IMDB board and I saw someone noting that Kate brewster is in T4 as Kate Connor, and she originated from T3. Which means that they are following T3 atleast somewhat.
From what I know, the ONLY part of T3 that was kept in the timeline of T4 was Kate Brewster and John Connor being in the bunker at the start of the nuclear war. Other than that, it was said they will ignore most of the “revelations” brought on by T3 such as Sarah dying of leukemia, Kate’s father starting the whole skynet thing, etc. etc.
Hopefully they keep the original story where Skynet doesn’t take over the world the second it is activated, but was being successfully used by the military to fly their aircraft and to perform other functions and only started to turn on the humans after it became self aware and the humans tried to kill it.
That makes so much more sense than them needing to fight a virus, so they release some crazy AI that has the power to take control of the world’s computers…
Oops, not from what I know, but from what I heard, I don’t actually KNOW anything about the film other than what they have shown us, lol.
Don’t u think it’s kinda weird not to follow off from terminator 3. It’s a classic movie, maybe a bit etchy, but good nevertheless. And plus it would make the series look dull by changing whats already been produced and made. Its only fair that they continue in the style of al three movies, not just one and two.
No, 1 and 2 are classic movies, 3 was downright horrible.
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