McG talks Terminator 4 (Comic Con)

Duggy747

Seems McG has turned some hostile fans around after he got talking about the movie at the Comic Con recently.

SOURCE: EMPIRE

Director McG was facing an initially rather hostile crowd at Comic Con’s Terminator Salvation panel this morning. Fans have been vocally sceptical of the upcoming McTerminator reboot and even after the brief teaser that made it online last week, the film has been held as a potential tombstone for the franchise. Knowing this, the director strode out and addressed fans' concerns head on.


“We knew we were facing a challenge of credibility," he said. "It’s the privilege of the audience to say, ‘hey, I don’t know about this. I don’t know about this McG guy. I don’t know what their intentions are with this movie.’ So I wanted to protect the movie and protect all of you by hiring the most credible actor of his generation: Christian Bale.

"This whole thing began with listening. We listened to the fans and everybody wanted to look at the future. We weren’t excited about making T4, we were excited about making a new beginning. This feature is post judgement day to get a look at those worlds that the previous pictures only teased. Prior to making the picture I made sure to talk to Jim Cameron, of course Arnold Schwarzenegger. We hired Stan Winston, may he rest in peace and his designs are all over this picture.”

McG also revealed some previously unknown information, that the film’s screenwriter is, in fact, Jonah Nolan, the scribe behind The Dark Knight. At the mention of this and McG’s other comments, the crowd began cheering this man they’d so long reviled and could be heard buying in to his vision of The Terminator.

He further eased concerns with news that he wasn’t planning to make a kiddie-friendly Terminator in order to ensure maximum box office receipts. “We’re shooting the picture with the picture first at all times. I know there’s been some talk about a PG-13 rating. Something I guaranteed Christian is that we put the picture first at all times. And I’ve been given [the studio heads’] blessing to make the picture and if it’s a rated R picture it’s a rated R picture and that’s that. The picture comes first.”

And if that wasn’t enough to win over this toughest of crowds, he then went on to reveal an extended three minute trailer, which set fans screaming till Empire feared the hall would collapse. There was no CG as the film is only halfway through filming but what we saw as nothing short of jaw-dropping. McTerminator detractors may need to find a new whipping boy because, if what we saw is anything to go by, McG might have knocked this one out of the park.

Read on for a full description of the trailer.

The future. A barren wasteland with the smoking wreckage of a helicopter.
Radio: “Bravo 10, Bravo 10, is anyone there? Answer please. Come in. Anyone there? How many survivors are there?”
A survivor moves, it’s Christian Bale as John Connor.
Connor: “One.”
Radio: “Repeat.”
Connor: “...ONE!”
Cut to: Bale stepping over the corpse of a terminator.
Cut to: Bale face to face with Sam Worthington’s Marcus Wright.
Connor: “If I let you down, you’ll kill everyone in this room.”
Wright: “Not everyone, just you Connor. Because I don’t give a **** about you. I didn’t even know your name until two days ago.”
Connor: (whispered) “Kill me? We’ve been at war since before either of us even existed.”
Cut to: Marcus Wright standing in a wreckage strewn courtyard.
Wright: “Hey!”
Suddenly weapon fire shatters the silence and bullets begin chewing up the ground around him. Just as it seems he’s done for a figure dives out from out of shot and knocks him out of the line of fire. He looks up and it’s Antol Yelchin’s Kyle Reese.
Reese: “Come with me if you want to live.”
We see the barrel of a minigun blazing and a Terminator’s feet as it walks towards them, crushing a human skull beneath its weight.
Wright: (echoing Michael Biehn’s lines form the first film while talking to Reese) “What day is it? What year?”
Reese: “2018.”
Wright: “What happened here?”
Reese: “Judgement day happened.”
Cut to: a truck with a snow plough welded to the front crashing through obstacles on a road, a jeep driving through the desert, resistance fighters running across a train track and three humans jumping over a precipice with abseiling ropes attached to them.
Voice: “Go! Go! Go!”
Cut to: the burned face of a T-600, its metal skull showing through the ruin of its flesh.
Cut to: the silhouette of a terminator endoskeleton holding a gun, it’s eyes glow red against the darkness.
Cut to: A night shot of Moon Bloodgood’s Blair Williams standing outside with her back to us, topless. She turns around, her hands covering her modesty.
Cut to: figures running amidst explosions and gunfire, a figure on a motorbike flying through the air.
Cut to: John Connor and his men inside a bunker. There is a huge cybernetic arm tied to a table – it’s about seven feet long and topped with a claw. Connor crouches nest to the claw to study it and the claw comes to life, snapping at the air.
Cut to: A huge metal machine rearing into shot with red eyes and an enormous metal carapace. An inhuman howl fills the air.
Connor: “This is not the future that my mother told me about. Something has changed.”
The familiar Terminator beat hammers out.
Kate Connor: “If you saved us once in another future, you can save us in this one.”
Cut to: Reese turning to Connor.
Reese: “Who are you?”
Connor: “John Connor!”
Cut to: Bryce Dallas Howard’s Kate Connor running toward s the camera and screaming “John!”
Cut to: Connor face to face with Wright again.
Connor: “You tried killing my mother. You killed my father. You will not kill me.”
Cut to: A figure covered head to toe in mud and screaming into the night (could be Worthington or Bale – hard to tell).
Cut to: a terminator trapped under the landing strut of a helicopter. A gun barrel lowers to its skull and puts it out of its misery. The camera pans up to reveal John Connor looking decidedly mean.
Cut to: the inside of a building. A huge cybernetic arm crashes through the ceiling and grabs someone, pulling him through the hole in the roof. It’s the arm of a harvester, one of the machine’s huge man hunters.
Cut to: A terminator being crushed by a falling car.
End title comes up word by word: The. End. Begins.
Cut to: Bale lying prone, clearly in pain with a terminator’s hand descending towards his face.
Connor: “You son of a bitch!”
It claws furrows down the front of his face. He screams.

John Nolan, eh? Now I am interested to be honest.

Vic Vinegar

I don't know if I want to read the spoiler or not!

Is it really, really spoilery?

Mackman

A little, its just a trailer. Id love to see it, sounds awesome

Vic Vinegar

I gave in! sounds class really. I only hope he (McG) doesn't lace it with Charlies Angels style stupid action. Hopefully he'll behave.

grames_bond

just after reading that trailer i am genuinely interested and excited about this now!

ziedth

i must admit my high hopes drive has kicked in to overdrive,

i always looking forward to this since CB went on board but it just seems a little different now i know they are not going down the shameful T3 route to make it kiddy friendly

Galvasean

When i heard about this initially I was very skeptical, but the more I hear about it the better it seems to get.

Tusky

Is this trailer online yet ? Best news is the fact that it wont be PG-13.

Duggy747

Tusky wrote:

Is this trailer online yet ? Best news is the fact that it wont be PG-13.

More than likely it'll sit at a pretty respectable 15's.

I've always said that given the chance McG could deliver a decent Terminator film and thus far it looks like I've been right.

Duggy747

Well, given the circumstances: Jon Nolan - Screenwriter, Bale - Connor, Stan Winston - Nuff' said, and the fact that WB did also announce a week or so ago that they weren't pressuring for a PG-13 I'd say any nervousness about this have been lowered a bit and interests raised a bit.

I still wait till I see the trailer, though I quite like how there's a lot of stuff happening in the trailer and Empire states there was no CGI. A good sign it won't be an effects-spectacle.

The Freeman

so the question beckons!

when is the trailer out for the public folk!!....like ourselves.

Frank Bullitt

I think I need to see that trailer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GAAman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXnELk6pZVk

There are a few other ones there i dont know how legit they are (ie not fanboy ones) but the one i have there looks the part

Vokes

Tusky wrote:

Best news is the fact that it wont be PG-13.

There's no way this film won't be a PG-13 rating.

Considering the budget (100mil+) and that it's set for release in the summer blockbuster season - it needs to be PG-13 to make the studio any profit.

Cokehead Mother

SofaK wrote: »

There's no way this film won't be a PG-13 rating.

Considering the budget (100mil+) and that it's set for release in the summer blockbuster season - it needs to be PG-13 to make the studio any profit.

T3 had a huge budget and was released in the summer with an R rating.

Vokes

So it was, could've sworn it was PG-13

Also thought Dark Knight was rated R, but it is PG-13 !

Frank Bullitt

GAAman wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXnELk6pZVk

There are a few other ones there i dont know how legit they are (ie not fanboy ones) but the one i have there looks the part

I meant the 3 minute one!!!!!!!!!!

projectmayhem

SofaK wrote: »

There's no way this film won't be a PG-13 rating.

Considering the budget (100mil+) and that it's set for release in the summer blockbuster season - it needs to be PG-13 to make the studio any profit.

i believe the studio execs are coming 'round to r-rating, as now it's sexy because you'll make more money on the hype around an r-rating alone, regardless of the film. i'd say half of rambo's money was made purely because it wasn't watered down pg-13 rubbish

projectmayhem

projectmayhem wrote: »

i believe the studio execs are coming 'round to r-rating, as now it's sexy because you'll make more money on the hype around an r-rating alone, regardless of the film. i'd say half of rambo's money was made purely because it wasn't watered down pg-13 rubbish

It's estimated that Rambo lost up to 3 million in ticket sales opening weekend because under 17s were buying tickets to Meet the Spartans then walking into Rambo.