Sue Daniels @ May 31, 2009
 Terminator Salvation - The End Begins In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, director McG brings back to theaters its darkest chapter yet.
Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, mankind fated to fight against Skynet and its army of Terminators.
Christian Bale, one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood today, stars as John Connor. His gravel-voiced Batman helped The Dark Knight break the billion-dollar mark. 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.
“I did not want to make just a hardware film”, said director McG in an interview for Los Angeles Times. McG, a talented, multifaceted director has become a world-class scholar of all things “Terminator”. In touch with youth culture (which speaks to his sidelight as a TV producer with credits including “The O.C.”), McG has created the perfect environment in Terminator Salvation.
TRIVIA:
- Josh Brolin was asked to play Marcus Wright, but he turned it down.
- This is the first Terminator movie not to feature Earl Boen, who played a doubting psychiatrist in the other films.
- The first Terminator film to receive a PG-13 rating (the previous films were R).
- This is the first film in which John Connor and his father Kyle Reese have appeared together.
- All four ‘Terminator’ films have had their climactic battle scenes take place in industrial settings. The Terminator (1984) saw Kyle and Sarah face a skinless T-800 in an automated factory; Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) had the T-800 and the T-1000 face off in a steel mill; Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) placed John, Kate and the T-850 at Cyber Research Systems, where John and Kate escaped the TX in a particle accelerator; and ‘Salvation’ sees John and Marcus face off with the very first T-800 in a Skynet factory.
- In several scenes, Kyle can be seen wearing Nike shoes. They are strikingly similar to the Nike Vandals he wore in The Terminator (1984).
- At one point, the film carried the subtitle “The Future Begins”. Coincidentally, the film Star Trek (2009) (which opened weeks before Terminator: Salvation) used the same saying as a tagline.
- Several shots focus on the feet of the characters. This is a trademark of director James Cameron, who made the first two Terminator films.
- Old recordings of Sarah Connor are played in the film, with lines nearly word-for-word from The Terminator (1984). Linda Hamilton voiced the lines herself in an uncredited role.
- Roland Kickinger was chosen to portray the Terminator’s body, while Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face was digitally grafted onto the body. Coincidentally, the former portrayed Schwarzenegger in the biographical film See Arnold Run (2005) (TV).
Sue Daniels.-
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